Keir Starmer has blasted Boris Johnson for freezing the pay of NHS heroes - while giving Dominic Cummings a 40% raise. The Labour leader said it was "absolutely wrong" to make all public-sector workers take a pay freeze.
Asked if it was financially responsible to give pay rises without tax hikes, the Labour leader said: "We have to have a plan for the future to rebuild the foundations of our country. "You don't do that by freezing the pay of those at the front line throughout this pandemic, public-sector workers, while at the same time giving people like Dominic Cummings a pay rise." Asked what he would say to private-sector employees who have had pay cuts or lost their jobs, Sir Keir said: "What I say to them is we need the recovery to
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