THE full cost of the coronavirus crisis has been laid bare with the UK economy set to shrink by its largest amount in 300 years, one million people forecast to lose their jobs and borrowing to reach levels not seen in peacetime. Deplorable indeed.”Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, also took to social media, branding the aid cut “shameful and wrong”. He explained he could “not justify a significant, across-the-board” pay increase for all public sector workers given the difficulties faced in the private sector. Alison Thewliss for the SNP said it felt like the Government was “punishing people for working in the public sector”. A public sector pay freeze takes £4bn out of the economy, squeezes living standards and starves the economy of investment at the very worst possible time.”

Source: The Herald November 25, 2020 19:07 UTC