A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News.

Leading the week

The prospect of strike action looms large over the run-up to Christmas as the cost of living crisis continues to impact industrial relations. As newly released NHS figures show ambulance crews were unable to respond to nearly one in four 999 calls in October, a strike ballot closes on Tuesday (29 November) for 15,000 ambulance workers belonging to the GMB Union, which argues the government’s four per cent pay award amounts to a real terms pay cut amid record-high inflation rates.