#NastyParty: Twitter fumes as Tories find £1billion for DUP but deny emergency workers pay rise

‘The Tories are facing a barrage of social media criticism for blocking a modest pay rise for emergency service workers but somehow finding £1 billion to hand over to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to keep their enfeebled minority government in power.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tabled an amendment on Wednesday calling for an end to the public sector pay cap and for more police and firefighters to be recruited in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
It comes after May finally struck a deal to get the backing of the DUP after promising to pour £1 billion (US$1.3 billion) into the coffers of Northern Ireland’s devolved executive.’
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