Sunday People

Execs get 100% pay rise as PM vow flops

Council louse

- By Stephen Hayward

TV, it was all very casual. So I bought lipstick and makeup and got my friend to make me a top, and she made a busty top. My mum was horrified.

“Her casual daughter was suddenly exposing everything on telly. I got it wrong at the beginning because I was trying to fumble through.”

She said she has “taught herself” to wear high heels and that it was “never natural”.

Anita ita is also a fan of the “phenomenal” omenal” # metoo campaign following the Harvey Weinstein ein abuse scandal.

She said: “When women have felt elt discrimina­ted against for one reason or another r in the workplace it’s ’s disgusting and unaccepacc­eptable. For a long time me women n have put up and shut up because they have felt that’s the norm and the culture.

“It’s incredible that finally culprits are being taken down and women are in an environmen­t where they feel safe enough t o say ‘ t his is unacceptab­le’.

Hoodie

“And this campaign is really part of that. It’s highlighti­ng something else which is ‘don’t don tell me I look tired just becaus because I’ve got a hoodie on’. Or that y you expect me to wear high heels and shoulder pads. We are not in the 50s any mo more.” She s said: “I feel so glad I’m a woman now, that this is happening in my time and that I’m a able to talk about it. Tha That I’m able to use my voice v as a woman on TV T and say I support this. To support wom- en in the workplace and nd to be treated the same as men.”

Anita previously blasted asted the BBC for not bridging the gender ender pay gap.

When asked if she has finally got equal pay, she said: “I I don’t know. I need to phone up my y male counterpar­ts and see how w much they get paid. There’s a big BBC women’s campaign, I’m fully supportive of that.

“Let’s see what happens. appens. There’s a long way to go.”

A BBC spokesman n said: “BBC News at Ten is s very sorry the wrong images mages were used to mark k the death of Shashi Kapoor. or.

“The piece did not meet its usual standards rds and the programme has apologised for any ny upset.” FATCAT bosses are still getting massive pay rises despite Theresa May’s vow to tackle inequality between directors and staff.

Figures show 28 execs have been awarded increases of 100 per cent or more on the previous year.

The biggest went to Chris Silva, outgoing US boss of science and technology firm Allied Minds, whose pay rose an incredible 760 per cent to £6.7million.

Lee Feldman, chairman of online gambling group GVC, got a 451 per cent rise to £6.7million.

And Martin Bennett of Homeserve got a 412 per cent rise to £3.1million.

The rises were revealed by Labour Research magazine, which said top executive pay is now 72 times greater than the UK’s average £28,758 salary.

The mag found 477 execs earn £1million or more.

Unions say Mrs May has backtracke­d on plans to tackle the pay gap, including letting employee representa­tives sit on boards. BEACHCOMBE­R Wim Kruiswijk has replied to 1,200 messages he has found in bottles washed up on the Dutch coast in 30 years of collecting. MAYOR Teresa Bradley, 60, has been charged with using dead women’s IDs to forge disabled parking permits in Davenport, Florida.

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