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UK Covid live news: government’s 1% pay increase offer for NHS staff sparks fury

Latest updates: pay offer denounced as ‘pitiful’ by health sector unions, amid warnings it could prompt NHS staff to quit

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The proportion of people who feel that life will return to normal within six months has risen to about a third, the latest data from the Office for National Statistics’ Opinions and Lifestyle Survey shows.

It is the first survey since the government’s plan for relaxing restrictions in England was announced.

Around a third (32%) of adults felt life will return to normal in six months or less compared with 22% last week.

1 in 5 (20%) adults felt that it will take more than a year for life to return to normal https://t.co/B6bUStZf3E pic.twitter.com/Aq3uI91sFG

Conservative backbencher Roger Gale has criticised the 1% pay rise for NHS staff, accusing the government of acting in an “inept” way over the issue.

The MP for North Thanet told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:

I think more is needed. I think the way that this has been presented and handled has been inept, and I have to say that.

I’m not going to try and put a figure on this and it is expected that the government will start low and the unions will start high, and normally there is an agreement reached somewhere in the middle.

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