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The Government has won a long-running pay dispute with the police union.
The parties could not agree on a pay deal after about a year of talks, so an independent arbitrator – employment law specialist Vicki Campbell – was brought in to decide which of the final offers would be adopted.
With the 2026 General Election only three months away, let’s examine what the polls are telling us about who’s going to be running the count...
