The multi-millionaire Tory leader claimed it was important to “make the right and responsible decisions on things like public sector pay”.
Rishi Sunak has warned he will not shy away from making decisions “people may not like” when it comes to public sector pay.
He has set halving inflation by the end of the year as his top priority ahead of a likely general election in 2024. Junior doctors in England are due to stage a five-day strike next month as their row with the Government over pay and staffing rumbles on. But this would be a controversial move after the Government defended last year’s below-inflation pay rises by saying it had followed the bodies’ advice.Assistant general secretary of the Trades Union Congress Kate Bell said any decision to ignore pay review body advice would be “driven by politics, not economics”.
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