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What should be done about MPs and lobbying?

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Should M Ps Be Paid More?

Most voters are not earning anywhere near 80 thousand pounds, and the idea that an m p should be paid even more than that is understandably quite offensive to them. But i think if we want to make politics attractive and if we want a divers skilled set of people coming in, we do not want it to have an off putting salary. And this is the judgment that m ps make. I mean, you've got people like laborers, naddia whitham, for example, 23 years old when she was elected. Theycoud bot go straight on on salaries in the high seventies that theyd never get in the private sasia yet,. absolutely.

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