By William Yarwood

Under Labour’s first year in office, the number of Whitehall mandarins pocketing six-figure salaries has ballooned.

Almost 3,350 civil servants are now earning over £100,000 - a near 20 per cent increase in just twelve months. Of those, close to 3,000 are on between £100,000 and £150,000, 360 earn up to £200,000, and another 40 rake in more than £200,000, which is comfortably above the prime minister’s £172,153 salary.

In short, the bureaucrats are increasingly out-earning the politicians they are supposed to serve.

This surge in top salaries comes at a time when taxpayers are under pressure from higher bills and a record tax burden, while the government machine they are funding looks increasingly broken.

HMRC is cutting off........

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