The chancellor mentioned incomes £100,000 a yr is “not an enormous wage”.
Jeremy Hunt made the comment on the social platform X, in a submit that was aimed toward his constituents in Surrey.
He’ll marketing campaign laborious as he switches seats for the subsequent common election after boundaries had been redrawn as a part of an everyday evaluate.
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Within the submit on his profile, Mr Hunt mentioned: “I spoke to a lady from Godalming about eligibility for the federal government's childcare supply which isn’t accessible if one dad or mum earns extra of £100k.
“It is a downside that I would love to resolve after the subsequent election, since I’m conscious that it’s not [a] an enormous wage in our space you probably have a mortgage to pay.”
Mr. Hunt raised the brink for childcare advantages in his final funds.
In line with the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics, the common wage for somebody in a full-time job was £34,963 in April 2023.
Mr Hunt is standing for the Godalming and Ash constituency, having beforehand represented the Farnham and Haslemere constituency.
In line with Rightmove, the property market web site, the common value of a home in Godalming was £683,463 final yr.
Paul Follows, a Liberal Democrat councilor standing in opposition to Mr Hunt in Godalming and Ash, mentioned: “Perhaps that's the case if you're a multi-millionaire who can pour over 100,000 into his personal marketing campaign with out breaking a sweat – but it surely's a giant deal. greater than the nationwide or native common and a large indicator of why the price of dwelling disaster impacting residents throughout the nation appears to have been completely missed.”
It was just lately introduced by the unbiased physique IPSA that MPs would get a pay rise from £86,584 to £91,346 for the subsequent monetary yr.
As a former cupboard minister, Mr Hunt takes an additional ministerial wage of round £67,000 – which means his earnings from politics are round £150,000.
He’s additionally independently rich from his earlier enterprise profession, and was beforehand named the richest member of Theresa Might's cupboard in 2017, after incomes £14 million from the sale of a stake in an training enterprise he he directed
