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Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Health Secretary Sajid Javid, Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak during a regional cabinet meeting at Middleport Pottery in Stoke on Trent
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to cut 90,000 Civil Service jobs marks a return to austerity and will “damage communities,” the TUC’s Frances O’Grady warned today.
Speaking to Sky News, the general secretary of the union confederation said: “This is back to austerity – and we saw how austerity failed not only ordinary people but the country in the end by holding back growth.
“How on Earth the government expects to be able to shed 90,000 civil servants at a stroke and for it not to damage communities, I really don’t know.
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
