COVENTRY South MP Zarah Sultana has pledged to donate her £2,200 Members of Parliament pay rise to Coventry Foodbank.
IPSA, the independent regulator for MPs’ pay, yesterday announced the annual salary would increase by 2.7 per cent from April.
Ms Sultana said: “I believe this is wrong: Ordinary people are facing a Tory cost-of-living crisis.
“They should be getting a proper pay rise, not well-paid MPs.”
Ms Sultana said the pay rise was not ‘in spite of the Government’s political choices’ but because of them.
In a speech in Parliament last month, Ms Sultana criticised the Tories for ‘giving the green light to energy bills soaring by nearly £700’, scrapping the £20-a-week Universal Credit uplift and and ‘voting to slash social security and pensions by roughly four per cent in real terms’.
She called for the British government to follow suit of France which capped energy bills at four per cent, not the 54 per cent increase allowed by the Conservative Government.
