Experts question Tory leadership candidate’s plan to save billions by introducing regional pay boards
Jacob Rees-Mogg has denied Liz Truss plans to slash the pay of public sector workers outside London by introducing regional pay boards, as senior figures questioned how billions of promised savings could be made.
Rees-Mogg, a backer of Truss and the minister in charge of civil service efficiencies, said it was “not the plan at the moment” to cut pay for the wider public sector to make savings of £8.8bn promised by Truss. “The discussion at the moment is around civil servants,” he said.
