VVD Liberal, CDA and anti-Islam MPs on Friday voted against a Labour motion which would have torn up a proposed pay freeze for teachers.

Ministers had recommended freezing all civil service salaries as part of efforts to get government spending under control.
But former education minister Ronald Plasterk argued that teachers be exempt from the ban. His proposal at first appeared to have majority support but differences of opinion about where alternative savings could be made led the VVD and PVV to vote against it.
Teaching union AOb reacted angrily to the decision. ‘It is frustrating that a caretaker cabinet can break its promises and force through unnecessary spending cuts. Pupils and parents will be the losers,’ AOb pay coordinator Ben Hoogenboom told the Volkskrant.