For 2026-27, the salary of an MP will be £98,599. We made this decision after widespread public engagement, and benchmarking against other responsible roles in the UK and around the world. You can find out more about our decision-making below: assets.ctfassets.net/s90k6pr…

Myth: MPs get their home bills paid. Reality: I pay my own mortgage and bills in Rugby. When Parliament requires me in London, rent for the flat is covered, same as any worker required away from home. I pay for my own food.

As part of our annual publication of MPs' business costs, we've published a report explaining which Parliamentary duties are funded, and why. assets.ctfassets.net/nc7h1cs…

New polling paints an interesting picture of the public's tax-raising priorities, and a depressing picture of the public's understanding of tax and spending. I have no easy answers, but I do have some rather alarming charts.

🧵27% of MPs who lost their seats at the 2010 general election and were looking for paid employment were still without a job 12 months after the election. So @GullisJonathan's experience is not unusual. 1/

A reminder that Neville Chamberlain earned four times Keir Starmer’s current salary of £167k as Prime Minister

Lots of tweets doing the rounds suggesting MPs can claim £56 for breakfast. Suspect that figure is linked to the £50 breakfast tweets which have been circulating for years. Anyway, it’s all nonsense. MPs can’t claim £56 or £50 for breakfast. They usually have to buy their own.

Actions like this put good and decent people off from standing for Parliament. Also a reminder that being an MP is a sacrifice on your private and family life.

Linking winter fuel allowance cut with MPs’ legitimate expenses is cheap political point scoring. MPs have to live in two places - there is no choice. Demonising MPs who use their allowances just makes it harder for ordinary people - those without private wealth - to be MPs.

Lots of misconceptions around how MPs’ pay and expenses work. Yes MPs are well paid (though similar to GPs and head teachers and less than Council Chiefs) An after tax salary of £4900 per month is more than enough to pay mortgage, bills, car, support a family etc. 🧵 1/

As well as the salary contributions from MPs, which was upped last year due to financial problems. thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…

And Mr Russell-Moyle’s staff who will now, as a result of this decision, be made redundant.

Let's not forget: when an elderly woman challenged Paul Maynard on his expenses, he exploded and shut her down. He declared: "All I’m hearing is you want to abolish me. You want to stop me doing anything." This is the pensions minister ... now found to have broken the rules exactly as she alleged. No apology yet. x.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status…

Exc: IPSA is writing to the parliamentary commissioner for standards about Paul Maynard - the pensions minister who broke expenses rules and hounded an elderly woman turned whistle-blower. It is a formal notification that he breached the rules and opens the door to a potential inquiry by the watchdog. Maynard has repaid money - only sanction available to IPSA - but could face further investigation over conduct and treatment of local activist Milly Skriczka.

Small technicality, but when @BBCNews say “IPSA investigators” or “IPSA says”, in most cases they mean the Compliance Officer for IPSA - although it sounds like they work for IPSA, they don’t. It’s a public office set up in law & distinct from IPSA. bbc.com/news/articles/crgygg…

BREAKING 🚨 Pensions minister Paul Maynard found guilty of expenses breaches after inquiry by IPSA following Sunday Times investigation Blackpool North MP Maynard: 1) used taxpayer funds to "produce overly political materials promoting the [Conservative] party and his re-election" 2) "under-reported" Tory use of taxpayer funded office assets.ctfassets.net/w59ykwi… 🧵