OPINION - Rishi Sunak can sort the strikes if he just stops playing small-time politics

When prices go up, the fortunes of the Government go down. It’s as close to an axiom as we can find in politics. The Government is finding it hard to maintain control while the cost of everything goes up and that includes, inevitably, the cost of labour. The public sector unions are demanding pay rises closer to the rate of inflation than the Government is prepared, or perhaps able, to yield. Rishi Sunakseems ready to ignore the recommendations of the independent pay review bodies and let the strikes run. It would be a mistake to do so.