Good evening. Rishi Sunak has put pressure on junior doctors and consultants to accept the Government’s new pay deal, as he warned a series of rises set out today would be his “final offer”.

A million public sector workers will get a salary rise of around six per cent this year after the Prime Minister agreed to accept the pay review body recommendations. 

Doctors, teachers, prison officers and soldiers are among those who will benefit from the pay boost - but savings will be made from existing budgets, meaning squeezes must be found elsewhere. 

Louisa Clarence-Smith reports that education union leaders have said they are prepared to call off strikes after teachers were offered a 6.5 per cent pay rise.