British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s term began with a 5-6% pay rise for civil servants, including railway workers, who are employed by private companies but under contract to the state, and doctors and nurses in the NHS, the health system.
At a cost of 9.4 billion pounds, which is largely responsible for the 22 billion “hole” discovered for this year in the State accounts by its Minister of Finance, Rachel Reeves. Realistic or not, the administration of Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in power until July, had not set aside so much money.
