Sky's Ed Conway says there are sound economic reasons why the Treasury fears agreeing pay awards in line with inflation but it is risking a backlash from voters next year and beyond.
The UK is facing an inflationary spike - the highest rate of price increases since the early 1980s.
Now, the Treasury's position is that instead of trying to decide these pay settlements on a political basis, it has outsourced those decisions to pay review bodies. And the longer NHS earnings are held down, the harder it will get for the health service to attract the workers it needs to help clear the backlog of waiting lists from after the pandemic.'Health sec needs to meet unions'
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