Politicians facing 'pay cut'
POLITICIANS at Westminster and Holyrood have been made to share the pain with public sector workers after they were effectively given a pay cut.
Their salaries will rise by 0.66 per cent - well below inflation, at 2.7 per cent for the consumer price index and 4.2 per cent for the retail price index.
From 1 April, MPs will get 60,674 and MSPs 53,090.
Stephen Hammond, the Tory MP for Wimbledon, said it was still well below what many "fat cat civil servants" earned.
"It's a pay cut. We should get more as we are working ever harder to meet our constituents' needs," he argued.
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