SIR – There’s more than a touch of “do as I say, not as I do” hypocrisy in the views of government ministers.

Michael Gove believes that teachers and other public service workers should simply accept having had their pay frozen for three years, from 2010, followed by a below-inflation one per cent increase since then.

Yet from that same year, MPs’ pay has risen two per cent from £65, 738 and from April 2015 the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) recommends it be raised to £74,000 per annum and “indexed to changes in average earnings in the whole economy thereafter.”

George Osborne claims present public service pensions are unsustainable and yet MPs’ pensions receive employer contributions more than four times higher than the equivalent payment by companies into final- salary pension schemes, and these are not under threat.

David Cameron demands there must be a minimum threshold in ballots before trade unions can take strike action, yet MPs and governments take public office for five years without a threshold required at elections and most on the basis of well below 50 per cent of voters’ support.

David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose