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Article: HUMBLED: IRVINE PAY RISE CUT BY u18,000; Brown's 'No' to u22,000 payincrease for Irvine Government acts after Labour MPs call for Lord Chancellor to be sacked.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 9, 2003
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Byline: SIMON WALTERS
LORD Chancellor Derry Irvine was forced to give up his u22,700 pay rise last night, just 24 hours after it was announced.
The climbdown came after LabourMPs joined the campaign condemning 'greedy' Lord Irvine.
But pressure behind the scenes from Chancellor Gordon Brown was understood to be a clinching factor in the reversal of Lord Irvine's fortune.
Now Irvine has decided to take the same percentage increase as his Cabinet colleagues u 2.25 per cent instead of the 12.6 per cent. The Labour peer's salary was to have risen from u180,045 a year to u202,736. Now it will rise to u184,096.
Even so, a rise of ...