Boris Johnson is under growing pressure from trade unions give nurses a massive 12.5 per cent pay rise. Reacting to the news, IEA Editorial and Research Fellow Professor Len Shackleton was quoted in the Daily Express calling the planned 1 per cent rise as “fair”.

Prof. Shackleton added:“[With] hundreds of thousands already having lost private sector jobs, any government is going to have to restrain pay increases.”

Although he expects the government to cave-in to demands he said: “If they are wise they will identify the groups under most pressure and offer them a one-off bonus rather than build in a pay increase which will obviously continue into a future where we may be in even more serious economic difficulties than we are today”.

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