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Government must use Budget to invest in Britain’s crumbling public services, TUC demands
‘Ministers should be focused on resolving all of the current public-sector pay disputes,’ Paul Nowak says
Striking NHS junior doctors on the picket line outside Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham as the British Medical Association is holding a 72-hour walkout in a dispute over pay

TORY ministers must use Wednesday’s Budget to invest in Britain’s crumbling public services, the TUC demanded today after official figures showed take-home pay is still plummeting.

Forty-year-high CPI inflation of 10.1 per cent far outstripped average public-sector wage growth of just 4.8 per cent in the three months to January, the Office for National Statistics said.

The worsening situation is exacerbating a worker exodus across the NHS, schools and other essential services as staff are forced to leave and seek better paid work in the private sector, the union body warned.

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