to just over 11 % this year. wages are struggling to keep up, particularly in the public sector where pay rises are averaging less than 3% a year. that s leaves a cost of living gap. i asked him several times to please discuss play with me pay i lost count of the number of times i asked it and each time we returned to the same thing. that there was no extra money on the table and he would not be discussing pay with me. i m extremely disappointed at the belligerence that was shown. they close their books and walked away from the nursing profession this afternoon. the government though says it s concerned that if wages rise too far that will make containing inflation harder. and this is what the prime minister risi sunak told our political editor chris mason a short time ago. i ve got an enormous respect and gratitude for all of our public
Voters were marginally more likely to back the Foreign Secretary over the ex-Chancellor in the survey by former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft.