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Today has been quite a confusing moment of new policy and then a quick e-turn.

Perhaps it can just catch us up today.

It's currently just past 1pm.

So yeah, we've had some really fast changes.

It's taken about 15 hours for the Liz Trust campaign to you turn on a pretty big announcement

that it wanted to do a robust reform of public sector pay.

And the idea was that she wanted to do an overhaul of national pay bargaining and allow

this to be devolved.

So the idea is that depending on how much it costs to live in your specific region, you

may be paid more or less.

This is something that Liz Trust has been looking at for a long time.

This is not something new.

It's something she's considered for a while.

There are merits to discussing this.

The reasons that trust brings up are some of them, but I think they're more sympathetic

reasons too.

For example, if your local area is really lacking in certain skill sets or certain staff,

you could say decide to increase what you're going to pay people in order to recruit

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