Government minister on £120,000 salary, cries poverty.
Jan 30, 2024 12:09:15 GMT
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 30, 2024 12:09:15 GMT
A former minister resigned from his job because he could no longer afford his mortgage.
Tory MP George Freeman claimed in a blog post that rising mortgage rates contributed to his decision to leave his job as a science minister last November. In his resignation letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Freeman said that he wanted to “focus on my health, family wellbeing and life beyond the front bench”.
However, Mr Freeman’s blog post on Friday states that his mortgage payments rose this month from £800 a month to £2,000, which he “simply couldn’t afford to pay on a ministerial salary”.
Ministers of state are paid £31,680 a year, on top of a standard MP’s salary of £86,584. MPs in the Government are barred from taking on second jobs outside politics to supplement their income, but Mr Freeman is now free to do so as a backbencher - so hopefully he wont starve.
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/29/former-science-minister-quit-could-not-afford-mortgage/
You may have thought that someone on a salary of £120,000 would have had more sense than to publicly moan about being unable to afford a mortgage. It does make you wonder what planet some politicians are on.
Tory MP George Freeman claimed in a blog post that rising mortgage rates contributed to his decision to leave his job as a science minister last November. In his resignation letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Freeman said that he wanted to “focus on my health, family wellbeing and life beyond the front bench”.
However, Mr Freeman’s blog post on Friday states that his mortgage payments rose this month from £800 a month to £2,000, which he “simply couldn’t afford to pay on a ministerial salary”.
Ministers of state are paid £31,680 a year, on top of a standard MP’s salary of £86,584. MPs in the Government are barred from taking on second jobs outside politics to supplement their income, but Mr Freeman is now free to do so as a backbencher - so hopefully he wont starve.
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/29/former-science-minister-quit-could-not-afford-mortgage/
You may have thought that someone on a salary of £120,000 would have had more sense than to publicly moan about being unable to afford a mortgage. It does make you wonder what planet some politicians are on.
