Theresa May will face fresh pressure today after a damning report showed the scale of public sector pay cuts after a decade of pay freezes. Save our slugs – Chris Packham has set himself a tough task: trying to stop the gardening public killing slugs. The Guardian splashes with news that real pay has fallen for police officers and teachers and stagnated for nurses after a decade of public sector pay freezes. The Times meanwhile leads with ministers lobbying the chancellor to scrap any tax cuts in order to fund public sector pay increases. The Mirror has the headline: “Now put your money where your mouth is” and highlights praise Theresa May has showered on nurses, police and firefighters after the recent terrorist attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire, saying she should now back this up by scrapping a 1% public sector pay cap.

Source: The Guardian July 04, 2017 05:26 UTC