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...The most significant move by Jeremy Hunt in today’s Budget was to abolish the non-dom tax regime — this was a key Labour tax pledge and earmarked to pay for an additional 7,500 doctors and 10,000 nurses...
...He told Sky News that he was “very aware of the massive contribution” made by workers including teachers and nurses make, adding: “We’ve got to get the right outcomes that are fair to them, but also aren...
...But according to YouGov polling, the public continue to support striking nurses. The research firm’s most recent survey showed that 67 per cent of people backed the strikes....
...On Tuesday health secretary Steve Barclay said he was “working with the Treasury to ensure my department has the money it needs to fully fund” a higher-than-expected pay offer to nurses, ambulance workers...
...Nurses in particular have won widespread public support....
...With striking nurses and ambulance workers in deadlock with the government over pay, and the results of teacher ballots for industrial action due in early January, unions are increasingly debating whether...
...There is a huge amount of demand in the UK for medical services and a shortage of doctors, nurses and almost everything you care to name....
...Nurses have voted to strike over pay and many other ballots on wages are looming, including teachers....
...By contrast, advertised pay for nurses is barely rising, even after their services were in such demand as a result of the pandemic....
...Letter in response to this article: Here’s how to curb bosses’ pay, prime minister / From Giles Dixon, London TW9, UK...
...As a corrective to some of the gloom surrounding prospects for the global economy, economics editor Chris Giles offers some reasons to be cheerful....
...The pay offer will be higher than originally proposed by government; ministers will argue it will help nurses, teachers and others cope with the cost of living crisis as inflation is expected to top 11 per...
...The minister added Downing Street was chiefly concerned about pay rises for nurses and teachers “who are likely to cause the most headaches”....
...Top stories today Nurses’ historic walkout | As many as 100,000 nurses will walk out in the initial strike starting today....
...Chris Giles explains why in an excellent column this week, drawing on research by James Sefton, economics professor at Imperial College London: In the latest work on generational wealth accounts, Professor...
...Over on his blog, Giles Wilkes has an excellent summary of that debate, as does Duncan Weldon in his Value Added newsletter....
...Prime minister Rishi Sunak said the country could not afford significant increases in nurses pay....
...My colleague Chris Giles wrote an excellent explainer on why this has been the case, partly due to the flow of economic reports....
...Chris Giles explains the context behind Jeremy Hunt’s predicted package of tax rises and spending cuts — set to be worth about £55bn a year....
...Jonathan Portes, professor of economics at King’s College London, said that with higher energy bills and other costs, the lack of compensation meant “pay cuts for . . . nurses, teachers and the police, with...
...Ultimately, says economics editor Chris Giles, Hunt has to choose between politics and economics....
...There is quiet disbelief in Tilly Tremayne’s decent Rebecca Nurse and in Colin Haigh as her shell-shocked husband....
...A Europe-wide recession is on the way, but it need be neither deep nor prolonged, writes economics editor Chris Giles....
...Vulnerable individuals were sometimes seen by up to 30 different nurses each month. Highly-qualified nurses left the service....
...Chancellor Rishi Sunak will use Wednesday’s Budget to extend a vast package of Covid-19 support until the end of September, in a plan which he hopes will nurse Britain back to economic health by the autumn...
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