Business minister Nadhim Zahawi appeared earlier today on Sky News and condemned plans to give MPs’ a pay rise in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis.
The Business minister openly criticised the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority that determines MPs’ salaries, suggesting strongly that they come forward and “explain themselves”.
“I don’t think a pay rise is appropriate.”
Business minister @nadhimzahawi tells @skynewsniall that he will look at donating his £3,000 pay rise to a charity in his constituency.
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The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has awarded generous pay rises to MPs’ every year for six years, and now wants to award another. To even contemplate suggesting more pay rises for MPs’ during the ongoing economic landscape seems totally lacking of political perspective, and devoid of any sense of empathy.
If the pay rise is approved it is recommended to be 4.1% an increase of £3,360 pa, effective from next April.
After months of trying to operate in survival mode, hospitality businesses up and down the country will look at this news in wonder. Many will doubtless question how when they are being asked by MPs’ to make sacrifices that challenge their very livelihood, the words don’t stick in MPs’ throats.
Maybe it’s simply another rude example of – do what I say, don’t do what I do.
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