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Absence has come to define the Johnson premiership.
The pay rise came after the union backed industrial action for check-in staff and a deal for them was agreed after tough negotiations.
Among the hardest hit groups will be pensioners, with 86.4% of pensioner couples expected to fall into fuel poverty, along with 90.4% of lone parents with two or more children.
Burnham described his announcement as ‘a glimmer of light in tough times’.
In the latest Conservative Home survey, 60% of those asked say that they have already voted.
‘Corporate greed is driving price rises not wages’
“It takes some brass neck to say British workers need “more graft” when you’ve served in a government that hasn’t done its day job for months.”
The People’s Assembly has called two national demonstrations
The latest questionable expense claim from the Tory leadership hopeful
With workers being squeezed, unions are committed to fighting back
