After they were balloted, Border Force staff signed up to the PCS union have voted to strike.
More than 120 staff – who patrol on boats in the English Channel and elsewhere – were balloted and 96% of them voted to strike with a turnout of 80%. In a dispute over a longstanding payment review into extra allowances for certain roles in the force…
Fran Heathcote, PCS’s general secretary, said: “If it takes a highly disruptive strike to shake the employer into its senses, then they are willing to walk out from their patrols to achieve their aims.” When they said stop the boats…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”