Pay Freeze? All Our Key Workers Deserve A Rise

Unions tells Chancellor to support our heroes

- Ben Glaze Deputy Political Editor

UNIONS today demand a pay rise for public sector workers – as Rishi Sunak prepares to inflict a “morally obscene” wage cut.

The Chancellor is expected to freeze salaries for nearly four million staff – a real-terms reduction after inflation is taken into account – when he delivers his spending review on Wednesday.

But 19 workers’ leaders, including those of prison officers, teachers and health unions, have written to him.