Taxpayer 'pays for Samantha Cameron's £53,000-a-year fashion adviser'

The salary of a "special adviser" who helps Samantha Cameron with her social diary and fashion style is being paid for by the taxpayer.

The aide – normally a position for people who help Government ministers – receives up to £53,000 for advising the prime minister's 44-year-old wife, according to the Mail Online.

Rosie Lyburn, a former model and grandaughter of late Conservative politician Lord Elliott, was hired after last year's general election.

Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, labelled the post a "vanity appointment" in the context of cuts to public funding.

"I've just visited my local Jobcentre, which has had a seven-year recruitment freeze," she told the Mirror.

"When tough decisions have to be made, I'm not sure the wife of the prime minister needs a special adviser." Full story...

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