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ngland is facing its worst unrest in over a decade with an estimated 500,000 teachers, civil servants, nurses and train drivers walking out of their offices on Wednesday demanding salary hike.
Teachers formed the biggest group among strikers with about 300,000 of them staging a protest march forcing schools across England to remain shut. With drivers boycotting work, train services were paralysed. The situation is likely to worsen as workers’ unions threaten more action.
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has firmly refused to give in to the demand stating that pay rise will lead to inflation. He was especially critical of teachers. “I am clear that our
England is facing its worst unrest in over a decade with an estimated 500,000 teachers, civil servants, nurses and train drivers walking out of their offices on Wednesday demanding salary hike children’s education is precious and they deserve to be in school today being taught,” he said. The government has put the military on standby. The Conservative Party government is facing a tough time with elections due in 2025. Major unions are on strike and the inflation is at more than 10 percent, highest in four decades.
As the government has failed to address the situation, people have genuine reason to be dissatisfied and angry. And that should be reason enough for Rishi Sunak to worry about the strike’s political consequences. The Labour Party, reports say, is ahead of Conservatives by 25 percentage points in polls. The margin was 39 percent in the Labour Party’s favour in October last year.
In an opinion poll last month people stated their preference for Keir Starmer, the Labour Party leader, over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and 55 percent thought the “Conservatives had done a poor job”. Countdown may have begun for Rishi Sunak.
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