Sunday shows round-up: no inflation-linked pay increase for public sector workers

Mark Harper – Inflation matching pay rises are ‘unaffordable’

The Transport Secretary Mark Harper joined Sophy Ridge this morning, at a time when public sector strikes are high on the agenda. Though rail unions claim to have found Harper far more satisfactory to work with than his predecessor Grant Shapps, Harper cautioned that nobody should be expecting too much when it came to their pay packets:

Government will try to strike ‘balance’ on Online Harms Bill

Ridge bought up the government’s Online Harms Bill, which will soon be back before the House of Commons. She asked Harper if the provisions of the bill, which have proved controversial among Conservative MPs, would apply as much to adults as to children:

Lisa Nandy – ‘It’s not possible… to say what’s affordable’

On the BBC, Laura Kuenssberg asked the Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy if Labour would be able to deliver the inflation matching pay increases that Harper said the Conservatives could not:

‘We have not changed our position’ on free movement

Kuenssberg also interrogated Nandy on Labour’s policy on free movement of people:

Jake Berry – There is ‘real danger’ for the Conservative party

The former Conservative party chairman Jake Berry told Kuenssberg that Michael Gove signalling his public support for onshore wind was bad omen:

Theresa Villiers – I’ve been voting for Matt Hancock

And finally, the Conservative MP Theresa Villiers told Ridge that she was one of the avid viewers keeping former Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the jungle on ITV’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!: