Government is gambling on cost of living crisis easing as it holds firm on public sector pay
The UK is facing an inflationary spike - the highest rate of price increases since the early 1980s.
Now, the Treasury's position is that instead of trying to decide these pay settlements on a political basis, it has outsourced those decisions to pay review bodies. And the longer NHS earnings are held down, the harder it will get for the health service to attract the workers it needs to help clear the backlog of waiting lists from after the pandemic.'Health sec needs to meet unions'
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