SIR - How embarrassing and what a shameless public relations situation the Government and the Secretary of State for the NHS, Jeremy Hunt have got themselves into over reducing our country’s debt which by the way continues to rise according to the coalition’s borrowing requirements. Some public workers have had no pay rise at all in the four years of this Chancellor’s tenancy of 11 Downing Street. The recommended one per cent pay rise is derisory but let us say mean. Then for George Osborne (a millionaire) to make Jeremy Hunt reject it is not just mean it is unjust. We are the fifth richest country in the world and we can afford it. How many MPs and cabinet members will reject their ten per cent pay rise to help reduce the debt as NHS staff are having no choice but comply with a failing austerity exercise?
Alan Holdsworth, Sandside Close, Bradford
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