Scores of campaigners, union members and disappointed workers are expected to join a motorcade through Waltham Forest.

Demanding an increase in the national minimum wage, the procession will be calling on the government to ‘give Britain a pay rise’.

Anger sparked by a huge pay rise given to Waltham Forest council’s chief executive is expected to encourage more to come and speak out from the borough.

Waltham Forest Trades Council will lead the way from Chingford Fire Station at 12.30pm.

They will go on to Walthamstow High Street, the Bakers Arms, St John’s church in Leytonstone and end at the Epicentre in West Street.

Linda Taaffe, secretary of the Waltham Forest Trades Council, said: “WF Trades Council calls on all workers in our borough – male or female, black or white, young or old, native or migrant, to come along and demand our share of the so-called economic recovery.

“After years of austerity, pay freezes or only miserly increases, it’s time now for all workers to get a big pay rise. What’s good enough for the bosses – like the £15k increase for the local chief executive - is good enough for us.

“We demand a national £10 an hour minimum wage.”

Unions who are supporting the motorcade include Unite, NUT, FBU, UCU, NUJ and Unison.