MPs were at the centre of a new pay row last night over plans to spend £1.5million on a fresh layer of Commons bureaucracy that would give some backbenchers a £13,000 salary hike.
Plans have been put forward to create new Commons committees with more staff, travel and accommodation costs, as well as extra pay for an elite group of MPs.
The huge package - to be formally proposed by Commons Leader Harriet Harman on Wednesday - includes a £1million network of eight new English 'regional committees' to oversee Labour's controversial English regional development agencies.
Gordon Brown a man who makes me so angry I could punch his light.
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