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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil and David Bond

Ministers may struggle to ‘hold line’ against higher pay for public sector workers, says ex-BoE chief

Sir John Gieve

Ministers may struggle to “hold the line” in their refusal to back higher pay deals for hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, a former Bank of England chief said on Wednesday.

Sir John Gieve, the bank’s former deputy governor for financial stability, also largely rejected the Government’s argument that bigger pay rises for nurses, ambulance crews and other public sector workers would significantly push up inflation.

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