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Tim Farron: Cameron honours to cronies and a whacking great pay rise and then a bumped up severance package
by Steve Beasant on 31 August, 2016
The Daily Mail reported yesterday on Cameron’s ‘utterly shameless’ over pay rises offered to special advisers.
David Cameron should be “ashamed” of inflation-busting pay rises he handed out to special advisers just months before they were given generous severance packages, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has said.
The former prime minister upped the salary of some of his advisers – known as Spads – by as much as £18,000, or up to 24%, according to analysis by Civil Service World.
The double digit hikes – ordered despite pay being capped at just 1% across the public sector – were widely condemned.
Mr Farron said:
“Cameron talked a lot about cutting the cost of politics over the last few years. This shows how utter empty this rhetoric was.
“This is triple whammy – honours to cronies and a whacking great pay rise and then a bumped up severance package. Compare this massive rise in a select few’s pay to a 1% pay rise given to nurses, teachers and public sector workers and the 2% average pay award across the private sector in 2015.
“This is frankly utterly shameless and the former PM should be ashamed.”
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