this was a final offer and further industrial action would not change that decision. the teaching unions immediately responded, by suspending their plans for further strikes. the announcement came asjunior doctors began five days of strikes what their union calls the longest stirke action in the nhs history. these are the pictures from one of the picket lines in central london. they re demanding a pay increase of over 30%. ministers have said that s unreasonable and risks fueling inflation. we ll have more on that in a minute. let s have a quick look, though, at the recommendations which affect millions of workers. police officers have been offered 7%. consultants, dentists and gps, 6%. junior doctors, 6%. prison officers, 7%. the armed forces, 5%. teachers, 6.5%. this was rishi sunak a little earlier. i can confirm today that we are accepting the headline recommendations of the pay review bodies in full. but we will not fund them by borrowing more or increasing your t
were saying this morning that government departments had budgeted for around 3.5%, so clearly a gap fair to be found that people were asking, where is that money going to come from if the government were to accept all the independent pay body recommendations? which of course, they have. we heard rishi sunak saying in that clip that essentially the money is going to have to come from savings within departmental budgets orfrom prioritisation. he said he wasn t going to commit to any further government borrowing because that could increase inflation and he says he wasn t going to increase taxes because he couldn t ask uk households to pay more at this time to fund pay rises for only some people. so the next question, of course, is, are the union is going to accept this cross? we ve only had an early reaction from four of the teaching unions. they say they are delighted with the 6.5% pay increase and they are pleased that in terms of the
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