{"id":44276,"date":"2023-01-19T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/lee-anderson-uses-aide-as-example-of-how-to-handle-cost-of-living-crisis\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:01:16","slug":"lee-anderson-uses-aide-as-example-of-how-to-handle-cost-of-living-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/lee-anderson-uses-aide-as-example-of-how-to-handle-cost-of-living-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Anderson uses aide as example of how to handle cost of living crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>Labour MP Dawn Butler said the tweet was \u201ca form of bullying and harassment\u201d, urging the Ashfield MP to delete his message and said that she was reporting him to the Commons authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether Katy agreed to this, it is unacceptable to use a young female employee this way,\u201d the Labour backbencher said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will also be writing to the House of Commons authorities to stress that this is a very dangerous political strategy,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ms Colthup\u2019s Linkedin profile states that she has worked for Mr Anderson as a parliamentary assistant for the past eight months and was educated at the \u00a335,000 a year St Peters School, in York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"u-heading-size-medium u-heading-style-normal\">Row over criticising nurses using food banks<\/h2>\n<p>Earlier, Mr Anderson defended fellow Tory MP Simon Clarke after he had questioned why nurses earning \u00a335,000 a year are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2023\/01\/02\/learn-how-budget-tory-mp-tells-32000-a-year-firefighters-using\/\">using food banks<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former levelling up secretary told nurses \u201csomething is wrong with your budgeting\u201d if they are relying on handouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards he was rebuked by his successor Michael Gove, NHS staff and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) who led further strikes in the dispute over nurses\u2019 pay and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gove told Sky News: \u201cI would never criticise nurses for something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pat Cullen, the RCN general secretary, said: \u201cTo criticise anybody using a food bank is disgusting, \u00adheartless and dangerously out of touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSky-high inflation means some nursing staff are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2022\/12\/13\/nhs-nurses-strike-really-underpaid\/\">living on a financial knife-edge<\/a> and even their own employer &#8211; NHS trusts across the country &#8211; are being forced to open food banks to feed their staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/12\/15\/nurses-salaries-should-looked-ministers-told-walkouts-loom\/\">average salary of a nurse is about \u00a335,000<\/a>, the majority of nurses are on a Band 5 pay rate, which has a starting salary of \u00a327,055, rising to \u00a332,934 over four years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMibWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRlbGVncmFwaC5jby51ay9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDIzLzAxLzE5L2xlZS1hbmRlcnNvbi11c2VzLWFpZGUtZXhhbXBsZS1ob3ctaGFuZGxlLWNvc3QtbGl2aW5nLWNyaXNpcy_SAQA?oc=5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour MP Dawn Butler said the tweet was \u201ca form of bullying and harassment\u201d, urging the Ashfield MP to delete his message and said that she was reporting him to the Commons authorities. \u201cWhether Katy agreed to this, it is unacceptable to use a young female employee this way,\u201d the Labour backbencher said. \u201cI will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}