Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss has walked back plans to establish regional pay boards, which she claimed would save £8.8 billion. We’ve looked at where that figure comes from—and Ms Truss’s claim that her plans were “misrepresented”.
issued on Monday 1 August, to “introduce regional pay boards tailoring pay to the cost of living where civil servants actually work, saving up to £8.8 billion per year”.
The spokesperson also claimed that Ms Truss’s proposals had been subject to “wilful misrepresentation” in the media, and that “current levels of public sector pay will absolutely be maintained”.
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