There is always a big lie at the heart of every policy this government enforces. It’s in their nature. I call it the Boris Syndrome, or Sunakitis.
The latest Whitehall whopper is that pay review bodies for public service workers are wholly independent, and their decisions are Holy Writ. Neither is true.
These outfits work within guidelines set by the Government, and their “awards” are merely recommendations that can be – and often have been in the past – set aside.
