Britain has a messy relationship with money - no wonder we’re so divided over doctors’ pay | Polly Toynbee

Some 50,000 resident doctors formerly known as junior doctors are deciding whether to walk out again in England .

Their year-and-a-half series of strikes ended with Wes Streeting agreeing a 22.3% pay rise over two years .

Now their seniors, hospital consultants, are about to vote on striking to reclaim the 26% .

The public backed striking doctors last year despite the 1.3 m healthcare appointments lost, which cost the NHS 1.5bn.

The median FTSE 100 CEO pay is 78 times greater than their median employee’s pay.

Tesco 's CEO on 9.23 m makes 431 times more than a median Tesco worker.

Fair pay agreements for every sector are government policy, starting experimentally with social care.

They reflect the old wages councils devised by Winston Churchill to protect sweated labour’.