Ministers' Remuneration On Monday the Report of the Select Committee
on Ministers' Remuneration was published. The Committee proposes that the Prime Minister's salary should be raised from i5,000 to /7,000. We trust that this recommenda- tion will be acted on soon. Mr. MacDonald's evidence alone was decisive that it is almost impossible to keep up No. 10 Downing Street without private means. Both Mr. Baldwin and Mr. MacDonald recommended that the Leader of the Opposition should receive a salary, but the Committee itself does not offer any opinion. It would be an infraction of tradition to pay a salary to one who holds no formal office, but we are convinced that the time has come for the Leader of the Opposition to be salaried. He has to be in his place in Parliament as regularly as the Prime Minister himself. His position involves much incidental expense, and he has not the leisure, if he conducts the Opposition properly, to earn money at the same time.
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