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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

All five Tory leadership candidates REFUSE to give millions of Brits a 5% pay rise

All five of the Tory leadership candidates have REFUSED to give public sector workers a 5% pay rise - even though that would still be way below inflation.

Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Tom Tugendhat and Kemi Badenoch all rebuffed a plea for more than 5million Brits in a TV debate.

Right-winger Ms Truss said: “I think it is very important that the government does stick to our guns because what we can't have is a wage-price spiral.”

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