TODAY I heard that the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has suggested that MPs’ salaries should rise from £66k to possibly £75k.
While I support the premise of the IPSA, I also believe that this move is crazy given the current economic climate. Currently in the public sector, pay is frozen or it rises at 1 per cent.
As a public servant, I do not feel any MP could, in any conscience, agree to such a hike.
If elected in 2015 to represent the seat of Oxford West and Abingdon, I would refuse to take the pay rise unless the economic outlook improved and public sector workers got rises too – to do otherwise would be immoral.
LAYLA MORAN Balliol Court Oxford
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