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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

BIZARRE: Labour special advisers join union over concerns about pay - You Need To See This

HM Treasury and the Foreign Office in London
HM Treasury and the Foreign Office in London. Photograph: Andrew Holt/Getty Images

Many of Labour’s newly recruited special advisers, known as “spads”, have joined a union over concerns about their pay.

Aides working in Downing Street or for cabinet ministers have said they are not being paid as fairly as their predecessors under the Tories.

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