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The number of public-sector staff struggling to survive on poverty pay is actually double the figure than previously estimated, research revealed yesterday while MPs mulled over the prospect of a massive 11 per centsalary rise.
The New Economics Foundation (Nef) said one million local authority employees are now living on low wages - equivalent to one in four of the workforce.
It found frozen wages coupled with the soaring cost of living have left public-sector workers £2,000 worse off on average compared with when the Tories took power in 2010.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
