The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has released its MP pay decision for 2026/27. A 5% pay rise…
“The 2026-27 salary of a Member of Parliament will be £98,599… analysis suggests MPs should receive a salary of around £110,000 by the scheduled end of the current parliament, which IPSA aims to move towards in increments over the next three years. As an initial step towards this figure, IPSA’s decision on pay for 2026-27 includes a 1.5% benchmarking adjustment, as well as a 3.5% cost-of-living increase.”
After a battle nurses are only getting 3.3%. MPs’ staffers are only getting 3.5% from IPSA. Guido hears they are naturally dissatisfied with that. Something to sweeten Labour MPs’ time in Parliament before their ejection…
Speaking at an IPPR think tank event in London, the Health Secretary compared striking junior doctors to mutinous sailors.
“I feel like we’ve turned the ship, the boat’s going in the right direction, except some of the crew are trying to row in one direction while the rest of us are going in the other. You can’t make progress that way. We are seeing an improving NHS, and we’ve seen improvement despite resident doctors’ strikes, but the fact is, performance would have been better and there would have been more money to invest in staff and services if the BMA hadn’t been undertaking the strike action.”