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Lord Hendy
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Lord Callanan (Con)
We are always happy to work with organisations that want to work with us. The P&O situation is entirely different; it seems clear that P&O acted unlawfully, although that is being investigated at the moment. We have a commitment to bring in legislation for minimum wage protection for seafarers.
Lord Hendy (Lab)
My Lords, prices have been rising at 9.1% per annum and wages are rising, on average, at 4%. This means that working people are looking at a cut in real wages of 5% per annum. Would not the Government be better off trying to cap prices, rather than undermining trade unions for defending the living standards of working people?
Lord Callanan (Con)
If the view of the modern Labour Party is that capping prices is effective in a modern industrialised market economy then I truly despair.