This government seems to have ways.
On June 5 Iain Coucher, ‘the boss of Britain’s railways’ who earned more than four times as much as the prime minister was quoted in The Times as saying that he would refuse to take a pay cut, rather against the spirit of the government’s pledges on public sector pay, since his organisation was merely the government’s contractor.
On June 21 Rail News reported Iain Coucher to step down as chief executive of Network Rail -
Of course it could just be a coincidence