The pay cap must now be lifted across the whole public sector rather than by playing one group of workers off against another – John McDonnell

John McDonnell MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, commenting on reports that the Tories are to
lift the public sector pay cap for specific roles only, said:

“The next Labour government
will lift the public sector pay cap for all public sector workers and we are
demanding nothing less than that from this shambolic government. The crisis in
our public services is a crisis made in Downing Street. The pay review bodies
have been operating under the constraint of a Tory 1 per cent cap for seven
years. The pay cap must now be lifted across the whole public sector rather
than by playing one group of workers off against another.”