‘Wounded’ Boris Johnson risking recession to get support from right-wing Tories, TUC leader warns

A 'seriously injured' man is willing to risk a recession to bolster his party's right-wing support, a senior trade union official has warned as signs indicate the UK is heading for months of social unrest.

Frances O'Grady, the leader of the , has also called on Tory 'red wall' MPs in former Labor seats to stand up and demand better pay rises for workers, or to face the consequences at the ballot box.

As inflation soars, the list of groups striking or threatening to strike grows daily and already includes teachers, young doctors, lawyers and railway workers, as well as airport staff and Royal Mail officials.

Ministers have guaranteed that pensions and benefit recipients will receive increases of up to 10% to keep up with inflation, while preparing to offer much smaller sums to public sector workers. The Prime Minister has said public wages cannot rise sharply for fear of fueling another rise in inflation.

But a new poll for The Independent shows significant support for public sector workers' strikes. It revealed that 59% of the public would support a nurses' strike, 48% of doctors, 46% of postal workers, 45% of railway workers, although only 24% supported walkouts by lawyers.

< p> Ms O'Grady told The Independent she believed the Prime Minister was 'seriously injured' and 'jerked off' for court favors with figures like the band of European search for Eurosceptic MPs, whom she said 'don't care about working people's standard of living', after nearly 150 of her own backbench MPs tried to oust her from Downing Street this month.

She said, "I think the truth is that the government is looking in the face of a recession [and] they are figuring out the history of that. They believe that recession is a necessary price, and that workers will pay it rather than trying to get the economy back on its feet and recognizing that to do that you have to stimulate demand and… you have to stimulate population. pay packages.

The gang of Red Wall MPs, who won former Labor strongholds in the last election with the message to get Brexit done, should warn the Prime Minister's workers that they need help fair wage increases if they don't want to be punished by voters, she added.

Newly elected Tory MPs in the north "should raise their voices", she said.

“Workers in their constituencies want stronger rights and they want fair treatment in their wages,” she said. Regarding the upcoming election, she said, "I'm sure their own constituents are asking what they're doing and holding them accountable."

Ms O'Grady also suggested that the Partygate scandal has eroded faith in the government's calls for wage moderation.

Workers "just don't trust them anymore," she said.

They could also be forgiven for being cynical after hearing "we're all in it before" under David Cameron's years of austerity.

She also said ministers should realize workers are stretched thin and called on Mr Johnson to look a nurse in the eye and explain how she will cope with conditions real reduction in income when it is already struggling.

Downing Street has been approached for comment.