POLICING minister Kit Malthouse has complained that the rising cost of living will be “tricky” for his household — despite his salary of £115,824 and a recent pay rise for all MPs of £2,212.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which sets MPs’ pay, announced last month that MPs’ salaries would rise by 2.7 per cent to £84,144.

Richard Lloyd, Ipsa’s chair, said it was “right that MPs are “paid fairly.”