Average public sector pay was 6 per cent higher than the private sector in the three months to November, according to the Foundation.
He drew attention to the 'big pivot' which will be executed in 2025 by Chancellor Rachel Reeves towards the public sector, making it a priority above the private, wealth-creating part of the economy that pays for it all.
Anyone listening to Reeves and her boss Sir Keir Starmer might imagine public sector employees to be morally superior and lowly paid.
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Reeves and Starmer intent on undoing Thatcher revolution The pedant in me was provoked when a report arrived the other day from the Left-wing Resolution Foundation 'authored by' its interim chief executive Mike Brewer.
But the assumption public sector workers are downtrodden compared with the private sector is not always correct.
