Independent Nurse: Unison slams Tory comments on pay.

Unison has criticised Conservative shadow chancellor George Osborne over comments he made calling for 'restraint' in public sector pay awards.

Mr Osborne told the BBC: 'The age of excess is over and we need an age of restraint and responsibility.'

He added that the three-year public sector pay deals needed to be reviewed because 'they may be very inflexible at a time when the economic conditions are changing very quickly'.

However, Unison's head of health Karen Jennings said: 'Health workers will be outraged at George Osborne's suggestion that they have enjoyed an 'age of …