Pritam Singh questions if high pay attracts top private talent to Singapore politics
Workersโ Party chief Pritam Singh has called for a more modest increase to Singaporeโs ministerial salaries, challenging the argument that a higher pay was needed to attract top talent from the private sector. At Thursdayโs parliamentary debate on changes to the political salary framework, Singh questioned if the city stateโs high earners in the private sector were deterred from politics by lower pay or whether the issue was political responsibilities. He argued that most of the city stateโs...