The economy urges the government to take measures to counter the inflation and lowering salaries.

Unless the government steps in with new supportive measures, the survivors nonetheless face a bumpy road ahead. Interest rates remain high, having been hiked in response to the economic crisis. This, together with galloping inflation and tumbling incomes, will continue to depress consumer sentiment.

Junior doctors in England start on a basic salary of a little under ￡23, 000, so you’d think they’d be happy to be offered a pay raise of 13. 5 percent. Not so fast. The government wants to change the way overtime is calculated in return, making most hours worked on Saturday normal hours rather than overtime — a move that would leave many of them losing out.