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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visits Milton Keynes Police Station while on his party's campaign ahead of the May elections
NHS workers joined with MPs, trade unions and campaigners today in urging Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to “step up” and support a decent pay rise for health-service staff.
Grassroots campaign group NHS Workers Say No published an open letter, co-signed by about 100 individuals and organisations, urging the Labour leader to support an immediate restorative NHS wage increase of 15 per cent after a decade of real-terms pay cuts.
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP