{"id":595385,"date":"2023-01-08T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/uks-sunak-says-inflation-fight-will-require-discipline\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T09:45:00","slug":"uks-sunak-says-inflation-fight-will-require-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/uks-sunak-says-inflation-fight-will-require-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"UK’s Sunak says inflation fight will require discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Andrew MacAskill<\/p>\n

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday he was willing to discuss pay rises for nurses in a bid to end strikes that have deepened a crisis within the health service the day before the government meets with trade union leaders.<\/p>\n

Britain’s National Health Service, long treasured and funded by taxpayers, delivers free care to all, but is under strain following years of relative underinvestment and the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

The strikes, staff shortages, and winter flu have led some hospitals to declare critical incidents. Patients are facing hours-long waits for ambulances, and some are being treated in corridors. <\/p>\n

Sunak, who is under increasing pressure including from members of his Conservative Party to improve wage offers to healthcare staff, said the government was willing to have conversations with union leaders about pay, despite ministers previously refusing to reopen talks about this year’s deal.<\/p>\n

“We want to have a reasonable, honest, two-way conversation about pay,” Sunak told the BBC. “The door has always been open to talk about the things that nurses want to talk about, and the unions want to talk about more generally.”<\/p>\n

Pat Cullen, the head of the Royal College of Nursing union, said she had a “chink of optimism” after noticing a “little shift” in the prime minister\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n

Thousands of nurses in Britain will go on strike again on Jan. 18 and 19 over pay after walking out on two days in December.<\/p>\n

“The prime minister talked about coming to the table. That\u2019s a move for me because I\u2019ve said \u2018let\u2019s meet halfway\u2019. I can\u2019t negotiate on my own,\u201d Cullen said.<\/p>\n

“We will put our case, but what the government wants to talk about tomorrow is pay moving forward and in the broadest terms. That is not going to avert the strike action that\u2019s planned for 10 days\u2019 time.”<\/p>\n

Sunak also repeatedly refused to say whether he uses private healthcare insisting the issue is a “distraction from the things that really matter”.<\/p>\n

“As a general policy I wouldn\u2019t ever talk about me or my family\u2019s healthcare situation,” he said. “It\u2019s not really relevant.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to the media as he visits Harris Academy at Battersea in London, Britain January 6, 2023. REUTERS\/Henry Nicholls\/Pool By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday he was willing to discuss pay rises for nurses in a bid to end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,23782,95316],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-595385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-financial","8":"category-inflation","9":"category-sunak"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}