Nurses’ pay squeeze and Tory tax cut ambitions: can they perhaps be related?

The Conservatives' long assault on the public sector has been multifaceted. But the meanness over public sector pay is its ugliest aspect

Before we get on to Brexit - don't worry: we shall - I want to draw attention to what I regard as the epitome of the meanness and duplicity of what is indubitably the worst government of most of our lifetimes.

Sorry, did I say government"? A neighbour asked me the other day if I was aware of a new oxymoron. Tell me, I replied. The very phrase Conservative government'," he said.