Overpaid public sector? Philip Hammond’s divisive talk is no longer working | Zoe Williams

The chancellor’s efforts to set workers against each other will backfire – as even his Tory enemies know• Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnistPhilip Hammond is a man more briefed against than briefing. When reports surface of an obnoxious remark he’s made, they have to be situated in part of a wider Tory scheme to hunt down any remaining members with a grasp on reality, and destroy them.Yet whatever the motivation behind cabinet leaks that Hammond finds public sector worke