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Do you honestly believe paying more would attract better candidates. A lot of tories have incomes far exceeding their MPs salaries, eg Cameron and Osborne so increases in salary wouldn't have made a difference to them. Same with many on the labour shadow bench.

Seriously concerned if you base the salary of public sector servants on the salary of someone in a free market who is an exception rather than the average in terms of salary in his industry. Of course, that could bring us on to the subject of a footballer paid £150k a week (roughly £4,250 per...

So IPSA have now announced their proposals for the reform of parliamentary pay for our downtrodden MPs. The headline figure of a £6k pay rise seems on the face of it shocking, especially when taking into account the restraint imposed on the rest of the public sector by the coalition. The head...