Re MPs pay, if there’s a seat with any chance of success, political parties will be beating good candidates off with a stick, despite paying ‘only’ £75,000 ish. Tbh I’d rather pay a head of a school of 2,000 students £100,000+ , I suspect they have far more responsibility than the average backbencher, and yes, we do need more people who have done real jobs.we do not need more ‘political advisers’, policy makers or lobbyists who have gone into politics straight from uni .