May's Conservatives Signal Beginning of End to U.K. Austerity
- Public sector pay cap since 2013 is under ‘active discussion’
- Election fiasco have prompted May’s Tories to rethink policies
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The U.K. government led by the Conservatives sent a signal that austerity politics will end after a minister told Parliament that a long-standing and unpopular pay freeze on public jobs is “under active discussion.”
Stung by losing their governing majority in last month’s election as the anti-austerity Labour Party advanced, Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure to abandon seven years of belt-tightening as tragedies such as the Grenfell Towers fire and London terror drew attention to cuts in vital services.