JUNIOR doctors and other health professionals will join students to march on Downing Street today in protest against the Tories’ proposals to cut NHS bursaries for students.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, who will be speaking at the People’s Assembly rally, condemned the proposals as “short-sighted” and “ideological.”

Mr McCluskey warned that the cut would mean “fewer nurses, fewer speech and language therapists and fewer health visitors at a time when we need more than ever before.”