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People on the street: MP’s wages
National World - LocalTV
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19/02/2025
We went out onto the streets of Manchester to talk to people on the street about the impending increase to MP’s wages and whether they were in favour of it or not.
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I'm Theo with Manchester World and today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people
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about Members of Parliament and their salaries. The reason for that is here in
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England MPs are about to earn a pay rise of around two and a half thousand pounds a
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year taking up to around £95,000 over the course of 12 months. We want to know if
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people think that this is too much or whether to tempt the brightest and best into
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representing people in Parliament you need to pay them for the rights the best deserve.
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I think they're supposed to just be doing their job but it's that they need to be paid a huge amount.
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It's difficult because it's a difficult job first of all, there's a lot of
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responsibilities, a lot of things to manage and a lot of ability I think
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you've needed to deal with the actual issues so I think it does need to be an
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attractive salary or job for people to actually want to go and do it right.
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For me I don't have a problem with them getting an increase in wage because there's a
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small number of them it's not a real figure it's like saying oh a footballer
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shouldn't be paid £100,000 a week. I think towards you know six
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figures is maybe a bit much considering where the national average is.
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