As top public sector pay packages are published, worth recalling what the now Chancellor, George Osborne had to say on the subject at the last Conservative conference. "In the current climate, anyone who wishes to pay a public servant more than the Prime Minister will have to put it before the Chancellor. I am not expecting a long queue." At the time, following briefing by George Osborne's officials, it was widely assumed this would amount to a crackdown on "public sector fatcats".
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