‘Spineless’ Matt Hancock fails to face MPs over 1% NHS pay rise proposal
A Junior Minister was sent instead...
A Junior Minister was sent instead...
"we really need to make sure we look after our workforce during this time.”
The government's 1 per cent pay rise proposal has sparked talk of industrial action among NHS staff.
Demonstrators have planned a socially-distanced protest outside Downing Street and in Manchester city centre on Sunday.
Linda Obiageli Udeagbala, 60, died last month after contracting the virus, having worked for the NHS for almost 20 years.
“For me, this is, from a moral perspective, the wrong time to be applying pay restraint," MP Dr Dan Poulter said.
Unison said people should stand on their doorsteps and balconies to protest next Thursday - 11 March - at 8pm to show what they think about the planned “derisory” wage increase.
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.
Johnson reportedly had boxes of luxury organic food “smuggled in” to Downing Street for him and partner Carrie Symonds.
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