Video: Nick Clegg would turn down pay rise The Deputy Prime Minister said he would not take a pay rise if MPs salaries are increased by around 15% to £75,000. Nick Clegg added that it was up to individual MPs to decide whether they would also reject the extra money. An official review is set to recommend the increase despite likely public opposition. "My own view is the public would find it impossible to understand, particularly those millions of people in the public sector whose pay is only increasing by 1% - they'd find it impossible to understand that their parliamentary representatives, at a time like this, would be receiving pay increases far in excess of 1%," he said.