A pay freeze for MPs, voted through in the Commons last year, will be extended for 2012/13, say expenses chiefs.

The chairman of the Police Federation said £160m was "being taken out of police officers' pockets" along with a four-year pay freeze and police budgets cut by up to a third.

Ed Balls thought he was being ballsy when he spoke of his proposed public sector pay freeze at the Fabian conference on Saturday. The trouble is this is only half of a plan. What’s starkly obvious is what’s missing. What is Labour’s alternative?

Comment just attached, by "Malcolm", to my posting here a while back entitled Austrianism as Number Two: Newsnight has just introduced its story on Ed Milliband's decision today to back the government's pay freeze by playing the Keynes v Hayek video from Econstories.tv The narrator even described it as a "fabulous" video that is "easily the most entertaining explanation of the issues" - ...

by Michael Meacher, from Left Futures There is no doubt this is a defining moment for the Labour Party. No-one questions that Ed Balls cannot, with 3 years or more to go to the next election, promise to reverse this or that particular cut, because nobody can anticipate in this exceptionally fluid and febrile situation

Boss of Britain’s largest union launches vicious attack on Ed Miliband, Labour leader, over his embrace of austerity and the coalition’s public sector pay freeze

The leader of the largest union has warned Labour that it faces "electoral disaster" after the party abandoned opposition to the public sector pay freeze and refused to reverse cuts being pushed through by the Coalition.

Labour leader Ed Miliband defends his party's decision to support the government's pay freeze for public sector workers, despite union criticism.

The capitulation by Labour to the austerity and cuts agenda of the Tories and the right wing press has been confirmed by shadow chancellor Ed Balls’ statement that Labour would not be able to reverse the Tory cuts and would maintain the pay freeze within the public sector if they come to power at the

Unions accuse Labour of failing to speak up for "ordinary people" after Ed Balls indicates it will support a pay freeze for public sector workers.