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| Pay for public sector pay rise by getting rid of staff, says Boris Johnson | |
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| Boris Johnson has said public sector workers should be given a pay rise but suggested the move could be paid for by cutting the number of state employees. | Boris Johnson has said public sector workers should be given a pay rise but suggested the move could be paid for by cutting the number of state employees. |
| The foreign secretary said the minimum wage of £7.50 an hour, which will rise to £9 by 2020, is “not enough”. | |
| He told the Sun: “I want people to be paid more. People get up unbelievably early and they work unbelievably hard, they deserve to be properly paid.” | |
| He added: “You can pay people more, but shrink your wages bill. I’ll be honest with you. I do think you can always find ways of reducing expenditure on things that are not necessary. Any minister who tells you you can’t find savings, it is not true.” | He added: “You can pay people more, but shrink your wages bill. I’ll be honest with you. I do think you can always find ways of reducing expenditure on things that are not necessary. Any minister who tells you you can’t find savings, it is not true.” |
| His comments, in advance of the Conservative party’s annual conference – which begins on Sunday in Manchester – are likely to be seen as another challenge to prime minister Theresa May’s authority. | |
| Johnson added: “We brought in a national living wage. I think that is the right thing to do but it is obviously not enough, and I would of course see people getting decently rewarded for their hard work. I really believe in that.” | Johnson added: “We brought in a national living wage. I think that is the right thing to do but it is obviously not enough, and I would of course see people getting decently rewarded for their hard work. I really believe in that.” |
| Johnson called on the Tories to be “more courageous” and “find new ways of invigorating people” about their ideas. | |
| He warned against the Conservative party shifting to the left to attract Labour voters, saying: “It would be a mistake for us to go chasing after Corbyn down some leftist cul de sac. | |
| “He is bathing in this orgiastic adulation from Corbynistas who are conspiring in this myth that he won the election. | |
| “Young people don’t have to go back to the 1970s. You don’t have to time travel, you just have to travel round the world – Venezuela. | “Young people don’t have to go back to the 1970s. You don’t have to time travel, you just have to travel round the world – Venezuela. |
| “We have got to be engaged mano a mano with all this leftwing nonsense which has been peddled again and we have got to find new ways of invigorating people about our ideas.” |