Angela Rayner – 2020 Comments on Care Workers and the Living Wage

The comments made by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, on 13 November 2020.

Ministers fell over themselves to pose for the cameras and clap our carers earlier this year, but applause doesn’t pay the bills and warm words don’t put food on the table.

It is a moral outrage that three quarters of social care workers do not even earn the real Living Wage. This situation was wrong before this pandemic, but now it is absolutely unconscionable.

After all that they have done for all of us, a pay rise is the very least that our care worker heroes deserve.