MPs will be given a £1,049 pay rise from April which will see their salaries rise to £76,011 while public sector workers face a continued cap.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has announced that MPs pay will rise by 1.4 per cent, their second hike since the General Election.

Theresa May's official spokesman yesterday distanced her from the rise, saying it was a “matter for MPs" but did not say whether she will accept it herself. Pay rises in the public sector are capped at 1 per cent a year until 2020.

Ipsa said: "This is in line with our determination on MPs’ pay, published in July 2015, where we committed to adjusting MPs’ pay for the rest of this Parliament at the same rate as changes in public sector earnings published by the Office of National Statistics ."

However, the pay rise is still below inflation which hit a two-and-a-half-year high of 1.8 per cent in January and is expected to head towards three per cent later this year.

In 2015 IPSA made the decision to increase MPs’ salaries by 10 per cent last year from £67,000 to £74,000.

The move triggered a spate of politicians promising to refuse to take the rise and donate the extra money to charity.