Rachel Maclean MP joins a long line ...

Dinahmo 160K seems about average. It'll be a mixture of constituency and parliamentary staff. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) allocate specific budgets to MPs to pay for these roles and activities. They account for up to 80% of MPs’ business costs.

You can find out more about MPs staffing and business costs here:

www.theipsa.org.uk/a-guide-to-mps-business-costs

When I started reading for my economics degree some 60 years ago, one of the first questions set for us to answer, posed in very old fashioned language, probably a quote from 19th century text on economics, was as follows
If one man by constant endeavour can find a job at a time of unemployment, why cannot every unemployed man do the same

If a class full of 18 year olds, fresh from school, and new to economics could work out the answer. Why are the government ministers who manage our economy incapable of doing so?