With just 48 hours before parliament ends for summer
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With just 48 hours before parliament ends for summer, Theresa May gets a depressing end-of-term gift
EMILY APPLE UK
The Canary
With under 48 hours left before parliament goes on its summer holidays, Theresa May perhaps thought that things couldn’t get any worse. But she was wrong. Because the beleaguered Prime Minister has just received a frustrating end-of-term present. From her own experts.
The Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) – the body that sets the salaries for NHS managers, military officers, and top civil servants – has warned the government that the 1% public sector pay cap was causing staff to become “frustrated and demotivated”.
What’s the point?
The SSRB even went as far as questioning its own existence, given that the government seems to ignore its findings:
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