PM’s spokesperson says workers should not be ‘chasing inflation with wages’ as that would increase inflation
asked to explain why a pay rise in line with inflation would be reckless, the spokesperson replied:
The spokesperson also gave a more developed answer than was available yesterday as to why it was right for the government to increase state pensions next year by about 10%, but not salaries for public sector workers. I’m not going to jump ahead to what it will or won’t be next year in terms of pensions.
Four months on, he still does not seem to have much of an agenda. Today’s announcement essentially just repeats his Sun article,what would effectively be a four-year sunset clause,
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