Exclusive: Labour leader’s comments contrast those of Bank of England governor, who called for ‘restraint in pay bargaining’
Workers are entitled to ask for a pay rise after a gruelling pandemic and faced with a severe cost-of-living crisis, Keir Starmer has said as official figures showed wages falling in real terms.
The Labour leader’s call came in contrast to comments by the Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, who warned this month that wage rises would fuel inflation, saying the UK needed to see “restraint in pay bargaining, otherwise it will get out of control”.
Labour would oppose the end of free Covid testing – though he stopped short of calling for mandatory isolation to continue in England beyond next week.
Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, made the right decision to force out Cressida Dick as commissioner of the Metropolitan police.
Dozens of Conservative MPs had been in private contact with him expressing dismay at Boris Johnson’s false claim he had failed to prosecute the child abuser Jimmy Savile.
