PM: MPs' pay rise 'unacceptable'
David Cameron has said he thinks it would be "simply unacceptable" for MPs to get a pay rise "at a time of public sector pay restraint". A proposed 11% rise would take MPs' standard salary to £74,000 by 2015.
David Cameron has said he thinks it would be "simply unacceptable" for MPs to get a pay rise "at a time of public sector pay restraint". A proposed 11% rise would take MPs' standard salary to £74,000 by 2015.
People have reacted furiously on Facebook and Twitter over the news that MPs are to be handed a £7,600 pay rise.
@itvnews yeah right.... #allinittogether how many will turn it down??
@itvnews And I'm powerless to think they're all a bunch of hogs at the trough. Sad isn't it?
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