Oliver Dowden Nurses pay demands ‘not affordable’
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Oliver Dowden defends the Government’s “robust” estimates for the financial impact of inflation-busting pay rises on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said nurses’ demands for a 19% wage hike are “simply not affordable”, and claimed applying this increase “across the board” would set families back £1,000 each.