The government says it is still planning to increase salary threshold to £38,700 but Tory backbenchers have called the move ‘deeply disappointing’
According to a report by Matt Dathan in the Times, Rishi Sunak has performed another migration-related U-turn. Dathan reports:
The prime minister said in March that he was “showing leadership” by including the Catterick Garrison barracks in his Richmond constituency in North Yorkshire on a list of sites to be repurposed to accommodate thousands of migrants. The site was due to be used as a general accommodation site for asylum seekers who would not be detained and would be free to come and go …
However, The Times has learnt that Sunak has ordered the Home Office no longer to use it as a large-scale asylum facility.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action over a 5% pay offer.
Engineering and maintenance workers will be taking action over January 5-6, with no rest-day working or overtime until 12 January.
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