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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was confronted on Friday by a woman angry over conditions in the state-funded National Health Service, where long waiting lists for treatment have been exacerbated by months of strikes by healthcare workers. Sunak, who made cutting waiting lists one of his top five priorities last year, blamed the industrial action for the long waiting times, and said the backlog for treatment fell during October and November when there were no strikes. The woman in Winchester in southern England told Sunak he had the power to stop the strikes, and complain…

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