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HENRY McLeish and Jack McConnell will be laughing all the way to the bank. MSPs are set to axe one of the biggest perks of leaving Bute House: the GBP 38,000-a-year pension enjoyed by former First Ministers from the moment they leave office.
But McConnell and McLeish will continue to receive the money. The review of MSP pensions would apply to Alex Salmond and future First Ministers, who would get the cash only when they reached 65.See the full content of this document
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Salmond Pension Perk Faces Axe
The instant pension arrangement - which is also given to former Presiding Officers of the parliament - came in for bitter criticism after McLeish was able to claim the cash, even...
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