Ministers will this week finalise plans to send in the army to drive ambulances and staff borders at airports, as a wave of public sector strikes threatens to bring massive Christmas disruption to Britain.
Health secretary Steve Barclay has so far rejected calls by health union leaders to hold face-to-face pay negotiations to head off a strike by nurses this week, which could bring further misery to the country’s hospitals.
Downing Street said that all ministers were committed to keeping public sector pay under control. “We have to consider what’s fair and what’s sensible in terms of not stoking inflation further,” Number 10 said.
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