Pounds 65k-a-Year Mps 'Should Have Paid Outside Jobs' ; Steen's Idea to Avoid House of 'Monkeys'

Herald Express; Torquay (UK) › September 12, 2009

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HIGH-FLIERS need to be encouraged into Parliament to avoid filling the House of Commons with 'monkeys', according to Totnes Tory MP Anthony Steen.

But the Pounds 65,000-a-year Westminster pay is not enough for successful professionals to give up lucrative careers to become MPs he said -- only those who 'aren't financially ambitious'.

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Pounds 65k-a-Year Mps 'Should Have Paid Outside Jobs' ; Steen's Idea to Avoid House of 'Monkeys'

Stressing he was not in favour of a pay increase for MPs, Mr Steen who is quitting Parliament in the wake of the expenses row, argued they should continue to be allow...

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