RECENTLY our local MP Mark Garnier informed us that he had employed his spouse Caroline as ‘office manager’ at a salary of £34,000, this being a saving of between £8,000 and £10,000 on the previous encumbent.

This week, the political blogger Guido Fawkes released a list of all MPs who employ family members, including the annual salary they recieve.

According to the list, Caroline Garnier makes £40,000 which, if substantiated, means a discrepency of £6,000 on the previously published figure, or the person in question has recently had a 17.6 per cent increase.

This is hardly in line with the Tory mantra “we are all in it together.”

A HEADSPEATH Mill Street, Kidderminster