Peter
Dowd MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to
reports that the Treasury sought to conceal pay statistics, said:
“The
Conservative Government’s divide and rule tactics must end.“
“Phillip
Hammond has sought to pit private sector workers against public sector workers,
to justify a pay cap which has seen real wages slashed in our public services.
“The
figures revealed by the GMB today show that last year public sector wages were
below the private sector, despite Hammond continuing to publicly demonise our
public servants.
“Hammond’s
subterfuge on public sector pay cannot be allowed to continue. Labour is
committed to seeing parliament and the hard working public sector workers
receive the answers they deserve around this Tory stitch-up.”
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