Crime pays as MPs get pay rise for stealing public money
MPs in line for retrospective pay rise under post-expenses scandal reforms
MPs could get retrospective pay rises under government plans set out today to reform how politicians' salaries are set in the wake of the expenses scandal.
They would lose the power to vote on their own pay rises, with that responsibility passed to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), under the change to the law proposed by ministers.
The move is designed to depoliticise MPs' pay after claims that successive governments have vetoed controversial pay rises, fuelling the impression that the expenses system is used to supplement MPs' wages.
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