Justin Welby calls for compassionate approach, saying Rwanda scheme is ‘immoral’ and delays to processing of claims are ‘disgraceful’
Rishi Sunak has claimed that families would have to pay an extra £1,000 a year if the government met the pay demands of public sector workers in full.
On a visit to RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, asked about the strikes, he said:
The government is always going to try and act fairly and reasonably.
What I’m not going to do is ask ordinary families up and down the country to pay an extra £1,000 a year to meet the pay demands of the union bosses. That wouldn’t be right and it wouldn’t be fair.
We’re looking at everything right now at pace but my priority is going to be to protect lives and to minimise the disruption on people’s lives.
So the government is trying its best to act reasonably. That’s why we’ve accepted in full the recommendations of independent bodies who make recommendations to the government about pay settlements in the public sector, and often those pay settlements have been higher than what many people in the private sector are receiving, but the government accepted them in full to be reasonable, to be fair.
Continue reading…Justin Welby calls for compassionate approach, saying Rwanda scheme is ‘immoral’ and delays to processing of claims are ‘disgraceful’Rishi Sunak has claimed that families would have to pay an extra £1,000 a year if the government met the pay demands of public sector workers in full.On a visit to RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, asked about the strikes, he said:The government is always going to try and act fairly and reasonably.What I’m not going to do is ask ordinary families up and down the country to pay an extra £1,000 a year to meet the pay demands of the union bosses. That wouldn’t be right and it wouldn’t be fair.We’re looking at everything right now at pace but my priority is going to be to protect lives and to minimise the disruption on people’s lives.So the government is trying its best to act reasonably. That’s why we’ve accepted in full the recommendations of independent bodies who make recommendations to the government about pay settlements in the public sector, and often those pay settlements have been higher than what many people in the private sector are receiving, but the government accepted them in full to be reasonable, to be fair. Continue reading…