Politics

“For me, this is, from a moral perspective, the wrong time to be applying pay restraint," MP Dr Dan Poulter said.

NHS Providers is challenging the government over its defence of the recommendation for health workers to receive a one per cent increase, which Labour says is a “real-terms cut” to wages.

Labour questioned the prime minister’s priorities for shelling out millions on “vanity projects” while “picking the pockets” of NHS workers.

Labour said the reported cuts would “cause devastation” to some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Johnson reportedly had boxes of luxury organic food “smuggled in” to Downing Street for him and partner Carrie Symonds.

“It’s very unfortunate that having spent 20 years building really good relations between Belfast and Dublin, between Dublin and London, we’ve thrown all that away in the context of Brexit and this latest row has made it a whole lot worse.”

The proposed pay hike has been branded the "worst kind of insult" by Labour and health unions.

Test and Trace will get another £15 billion in government cash, the small print of Rishi Sunak’s latest Budget has confirmed.

"It is a choice of two futures. It’s the long-term damage of Brexit, it’s the impact of Tory austerity, or it’s about that economic recovery, that fairer Scotland, that greener Scotland that we want to see with Scotland being an independent country back into Europe.”