This petition was submitted during the 2017–2019 Conservative government

Rejected petition STOP MP's 1.8% pay rise to £77,379 from 1 April

This pay rise is unjustified and immoral and an insult to the hard working people of the UK considering some local Authorities have put a freeze on pay rises

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BBC News politics section 01/03/18

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