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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Oscar Edmondson and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and Kate Andrews.

So it looks like the summer could be about to get a whole lot easier with millions of public sector

workers, including teachers, police and junior doctors, set to get a pay rise somewhere between 5

and 7% in what Richie Suneck has described as the government's final offer in an attempt to

bring to an end the prolonged strike action. Katie, can you take us through what the Prime Minister

has announced in his press conference today?

Yes, so ultimately the government has decided to accept all of the recommendations by the

independent pay review bodies when it comes to public sector pay rises. Now this comes after

suggestions from ministers on various morning rounds in the past few weeks, well they wouldn't

necessarily commit to doing it. Notably, shallow chance the Rachel Reeves for Labour also wouldn't

commit to doing it and therefore there is a lot of questions to whether would they, for example,

take the pay recommendation for teachers, where we know the Prime Minister has been very animated

and I think sensing a particular urgency there in terms of trying to prevent the teacher strikes,

but for some of these other areas, not actually do that, if he doesn't think it's going to end the

strike, will he not give the pay rise? Now they've ultimately gone for every single sector, so

millions of public sector workers, so it's teachers, police, junior doctors, we get pay rises,

according to these independent pay review bodies, that's five to seven percent,

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