SALARIES OF M.P.'S
Sir,—l entirely agree with your correspondent “Citizen” —both of him. One would have thought £lOOO or so a year not too bad for a job that, one gathers, allows a fair amount of spare time for other “gainful employment”; though the really conscientious member of Parliament, no doubt, works a good deal harder than many of us realise.' But it is the principle involved that is, I think, more important far than any other consideration. With periodical gloomy forebodings of inflationary spirals and what not, Parliament, surely, should be the first to give the nation a lead in restraint, even at the cost of some inconvenience to individual members. —Yours, etc., M.T. April 18, 1955.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27637, 19 April 1955, Page 15
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