TORY PAY FREEZE INSULT

The Conservatives have delivered a real-terms pay cut for teachers, carers, police officers and other public-sector workers by freezing pay for the year ahead.

In a year when our NHS and care staff, teachers, police officers and many others have gone beyond the call of duty, a pay freeze is an insult to many of the frontline staff who kept the country running through the pandemic.

Cleethorpes Lib Dem campaigner Roy Horobin said:

"The Conservatives have consistently underfunded the public sector, and now they are asking public sector workers to be the first to foot the bill for their spending.

"Millions of people are currently worried about their health andthe security of their job as we enter an uncertain 2021 but we shouldn't seek to balance the books on the back of those who have worked so hard to slow the spread of this virus and keep the country going.

"Public sector workers deserve better than this. They deserve a Government that recognises and rewards their sacrifices and TORY service during this terribly difficult time."