BREAKING: Health minister refuses to commit to public sector pay rise, saying PM must make 'tough decisions'
Asked by Kay Burley if the government would accept the PRBs' recommendations, social care minister Ms Whately said:"I'm not going to pre-empt the next stage in the process."Obviously government has to look overall at what is affordable. And the prime minister has been very clear... about the need to be responsible with the public finances as the number one priority, of course, must be bring down inflation.
"That's why I can't say here and now what the outcome of of the whole process is going to be. We know we have a number one priority of bringing down inflation.Labour's Emily Thornberry said the government was running the economy "by press release". Labour's shadow Attorney General, Emily Thornberry, blamed the"chaos" of the economy on the government, which has been in power for 13 years, and attacked the government's position on public sector pay.
She told Sky News:"It was only a few months ago that they said that they couldn't possibly pay out any more than the pay review. Now today, they seem to be saying that they're going to override the pay review bodies.She added:"We have still got nurses on strike, we have still got doctors on strike. We've got teachers that have been saying they want to talk to the government for I don't know how long.
"And now we have the government vacillating between are we going to pay attention to the pay review body or aren't we going to pay attention to the pay review body? I mean, it's not any way to run a country."
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