Parliamentary watchdog Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has just announced its recommendation that MP pay increases by 2.8% in 2025/2026. They are currently paid £91,346…
That would push MPs’ pay to £93,904 – £61 million a year for the lot of them. Quite the packet for a glorified councillor…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”