EU’s Chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier earns £72k more than UK counterpart David Davis – and UK taxpayers are footing part of the bill
The French bureaucrat earns up to £213,000 a year - 65 per cent more than Brexit Secretary David Davis
THE EU's chief Brexit negotiator is earning £72,000 more than his British counterpart - and UK taxpayers are picking up a tenth of his salary bill.
French bureaucrat Michel Barnier qualifies for a pay grade of between £15,000 - £18,000 a month.
That puts him on gross annual salary of up to £213,000 a year - 65 per cent more than Brexit Secretary David Davis’s £141,000 wage.
Unlike Mr Barnier, Mr Davis has to split his time between his government duties and representing his Haltemprice and Howden constituency.
And Mr Barnier - who is employed as an official by the European Commission to negotiate Brexit on behalf of the 27 other member states - earns £63,000 more than Theresa May.
Britain pays for 11 per cent of EU bureaucrat wages.
Nigel Farage fumed: “Unless our government calls the Brexit Bill bluff, the British taxpayer will be subsidising these ridiculously bloated wages for years to come.
“The situation is simply unacceptable. We have got to say, ‘We are leaving the EU and not a penny more for EU waste.’”
The massive pay gap follows revelations that EU Commission President Jean Claude-Juncker splashed £24,000 on a private jet to Rome - despite only travelling from Brussels.
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And the EU’s foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini spent £70,000 on a junket to Baku in Azerbaijan - all at the expense of taxpayers.