The head of the CBI has today urged the government not to raise taxes without delivering reform of Britain's public services.Director-general Digby Jones made the plea in a speech to business leaders at the annual lunch of the CBI London region at Guildhall.

Forum Response: Unison

Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, told ePolitix.com: "Digby Jones says that the private sector isn't about driving down everybody's wages, well try telling that to the hospital cleaner who has just had her wages cut, or the school meals worker whose pension has just gone down the drain, or the home carer who has lost her holiday entitlement.

"Is it any wonder they are suspicious? Innovation by the private sector has been hard to find and efficiencies have been mostly at the expense of low paid women workers. Unison shares the government's objective of world class services, and it is our members in the public sector who will deliver those reforms."