Criticised on pay, UK's Johnson expresses gratitude to health workers

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his gratitude on Sunday to health workers, responding to criticism over his government's pay proposal by saying he had tried to give the service as much as he could.
 

Johnson, who himself was treated in hospital last year when he became severely ill with Covid-19, has come under fire for failing to meet his promise to look after health workers who have been fighting a coronavirus pandemic for more than a year by proposing a 1% pay increase for the National Health Service.
 

Earlier, Britain's opposition Labour Party stepped up its criticism of the