Repulsive pay rise

It has been announced that Treasury civil servants were given pay increases of up to 30 per cent and £15,000 bonuses for their alleged sterling work during the Covid pandemic.

Meanwhile, nurses and other frontline workers are set to receive a mere three per cent increase at best.

Pay rises of ten times what nurses will receive, and bonuses of about 50 per cent of an average nurse’s salary, are unbelievable and frankly disgusting.

Angus Long, Newcastle