Inflation-busting pay rises are 'unaffordable', cabinet minister Mark Harper has told RidgeOnSunday in the face of strikes in the public sector. Read more: Ridge
There's a much bigger picture here, and it's a shift from a Labour Party that really smells an opportunity to get into power and wants to close down many of the lines of attack by the Conservatives.
And then you had Lisa Nandy, who herself had been on the picket frontline, had joined strikes, saying she too wasn't going to join the nurses on the picket frontline. Ms Nandy, who has previously supported striking workers on the picket line, also said she was not planning to join the nurses, insisting union members wanted her in Parliament"doing my job".
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