‘It appears that Johnson is on a work to rule. Just three overseas trips to deliver poorly conceived speeches that have been knocked out five minutes before.’‘It appears that Johnson is on a work to rule. Just three overseas trips to deliver poorly conceived speeches that have been knocked out five minutes before.’Last modified on Thu 15 Dec 2022 18.00 GMTto remember the 80th anniversary of the first public declaration of the Holocaust by the then foreign secretary, Anthony Eden, in the Commons.
First he took exception to Rishi Sunak’s opposition to onshore windfarms. Now he’s broken cover to argue that the government needs to substantially raise its 4-5% pay offer to the nurses to break the deadlock. It was quite straightforward he said. Nurses had taken a real-terms pay cut since 2010, increasing numbers were using food banks to get by, and there were huge problems over patient safety and staff retention and recruitment.
Rather it was just a negotiation. The nurses wanted 19%, the government was offering 4% and a compromise could be found somewhere in the middle. Duh. It wasn’t complicated. By lunchtime, a second Tory MP, Dan Poulter, had also backed the nurses. They needed more money and the government should stop being so stubborn. After all, we know that’s how this dispute is going to play out in the end. So we might as well cut to the chase.
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