Quotation for Today, Wednesday 5 August

But I doubt many MPs would be forced to leave their families behind because they were too poor to shift them on ministerial salaries of $240,000 – even if their housing allowance was limited to a paltry $24,000 a year.

After all, National has made much of its “line-by-line” review of all public sector spending. They can hardly exempt themselves from such scrutiny.

Colin Espiner on Ministerial housing costs

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