“If this can be a severe coverage, we’ll combat it tooth and nail.”
Tory management hopeful Liz Truss has been slammed for planning to chop pay for public sector staff, together with academics and nurses, exterior the south east of the nation in a bid to avoid wasting £11bn.
This from the identical occasion that has been claiming it needs to ‘stage up’ poorer elements of the nation.
Truss made the announcement as a part of her newest pitch to Tory occasion members, as she promised to crack down on ‘Whitehall waste’. The majority of the financial savings (£8.8bn) pledged by Truss would come from paying public sector staff dwelling in cheaper areas of the nation lower than counterparts in locations like London and the South East the place the price of dwelling is increased.
Her plans to pay public sector staff much less amid a price of dwelling disaster was met with a livid backlash.
Andy Burnham, Labour’s Mayor of Higher Manchester pledged to combat the coverage tooth and nail. Sharing the Impartial’s story, He tweeted: “Pay cuts for nurses and public sector staff within the North?
“I don’t suppose so.
“If this can be a severe coverage, we’ll combat it tooth and nail.”
Labour deputy chief Angela Rayner tweeted: “Liz Truss is declaring battle on herself with this recipe for levelling down.
“A race to the underside that might reduce the pay of faculty and NHS staff exterior London, widening the divide and punishing the North.
“This out-of-touch Tory Authorities’s dedication to levelling up is lifeless.”
Truss’ plans additionally acquired criticism from some inside her personal occasion, with Conservative mayor of Tees Valley Ben Houchen saying he was left speechless by the plans.
‘There’s merely no approach you are able to do this with out a huge pay reduce for five.5m individuals together with nurses, cops and our armed forces exterior London’, he mentioned.
‘A lot that we’ve labored for in locations like Teesside, could be undone’.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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