The Scottish National Party’s MPs have been told by their party leadership to donate their pay rises to charity.
Westminster MPs of all parties are getting a 10 per cent, £7,000, boost to their pay packets after the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority said they were not paid enough.
MPs cannot opt out of the rise, which is set automatically. However, Angus Roberson, the SNP’s Westminster group leader, said:
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However, others said they deserved the increase.
“I know I speak for the silent majority (who are not millionaires) to say this increase is well overdue,” Conservative minister Tobias Ellwood told Ipsa's public consultation.
“I never expected to be watching the pennies at my age and yet this is what I now have to do.”