British MPs are about to receive a salary boost of nearly £1,000 after the independent parliamentary pay watchdog recommended another rise. The £952 pay rise is the second on in one year and comes just nine months after the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) signed off a controversial 10 percent pay hike. RT reports: This latest salary rise will see MPs’ pay creep up another 1.3 percent to £74,962 per year, with ministers earning an additional £68,000 on top of that. The decision was made at an IPSA board meeting on January 20. IPSA defended the move as part of a plan to link MPs pay to public sector wages. However, Shadow Minister for Women Gloria de Piero told the Sun it was inappropriate for MPs’ wages to go up faster than other government workers. “I’m concerned that yet again this looks like our pay is going up quicker than other public sector workers like police, nurses and teachers. If their pay is capped at one percent, why shouldn’t ours be?” IPSA has defended the rise by describing it as a “one-off increase,” which now formally links MPs’ salaries to public sector pay. Labour MP John Mann warned of the [...]