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• Sunak invites unions to talks on Monday as senior Tory calls on government to improve pay offer to nurses – as it happened

  06-01-2023 18:07
  PM offers no hint he will compromise on pay offers as former cabinet minister says nurses key to dealing with NHS pressures. This live blog is now closedThe journalist interviewing Rishi Sunak this morning did not press Sunak on excess deaths because he needed to ask some questions about Prince Harry’s memoir. But Sunak would not go near the topic.Asked how he felt seeing the royal family “torn apart” by these claims and revelations, Sunak replied:As you would expect, it is not
  
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• Carrots, sticks and Thatcher replays: what is Sunak’s strikes strategy?

  06-01-2023 18:00
  As public sector disputes multiply, some think the government is deploying out-of-date weapons in the battle of public opinionWith new public sector strikes arriving on an almost weekly basis, ministers and unions are at loggerheads to an extent not seen for decades. But beyond the disputes themselves is another layer of disagreement: what exactly is the government’s plan?Away from the picket lines there is a fierce parallel battle being waged for public opinion, and to blame the disruptio
  
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• Sunak invites unions to talks on Monday as senior Tory calls on government to improve pay offer to nurses– UK politics live

  06-01-2023 14:05
  PM offers no hint he will compromise on pay offers as former cabinet minister says nurses key to dealing with NHS pressuresThe journalist interviewing Rishi Sunak this morning did not press Sunak on excess deaths because he needed to ask some questions about Prince Harry’s memoir. But Sunak would not go near the topic.Asked how he felt seeing the royal family “torn apart” by these claims and revelations, Sunak replied:As you would expect, it is not appropriate for me to comment
  
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• Sunak invites unions to talks on Monday but does not deny nurses face sack for striking – UK politics live

  06-01-2023 12:12
  The PM was speaking about his proposals for new legislation to guarantee ‘minimum service levels’ from some industriesIn his interview Rishi Sunak said he hoped talks with the unions about pay could start on Monday. Yesterday the government proposed talks with the public sector unions on their pay settlement for 2023-24, and Sunak revealed this morning that the government would like those talks to start within days. He said:The government has written, all departments have written to
  
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• Sunak does not deny nurses could be sacked for striking under Tory plans – UK politics live

  06-01-2023 12:12
  The PM was speaking about his proposals for new legislation to guarantee ‘minimum service levels’ from some industriesIn his interview Rishi Sunak said he hoped talks with the unions about pay could start on Monday. Yesterday the government proposed talks with the public sector unions on their pay settlement for 2023-24, and Sunak revealed this morning that the government would like those talks to start within days. He said:The government has written, all departments have written to
  
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• Mick Lynch: proposed anti-strike law shows government has ‘lost argument’ on pay – UK politics live

  06-01-2023 11:08
  RMT leader says government legislation aimed at stopping unions campaigning against povertyIn another interview, with PA Media, Mick Lynch, the RMT general secretary, said the government did not know how to run a railway service. He explained:The railway service is in desperate straits.The companies that run it and the government that oversees it have shown that they are incompetent and incapable of understanding the railway and running the railway on a daily basis.What this is a symbol of is th
  
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• Chief of nurses’ union says she would meet government ‘halfway’ on pay as rail strikes continue – live

  06-01-2023 11:03
  RCN leader Pat McCullen suggests nurses would settle for roughly half the 19% rise demanded In another interview, with PA Media, Mick Lynch, the RMT general secrertary, said the government did not know how to run a railway service. He explained:The railway service is in desperate straits.The companies that run it and the government that oversees it have shown that they are incompetent and incapable of understanding the railway and running the railway on a daily basis.What this is a symbol of is
  
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• Press release: New partnership to boost research into vaccines for cancer

  06-01-2023 01:15 via gov.uk
  New cancer trials to begin using personalised treatment to save lives
  
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