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I think there's already an understandable trust problem between people and politicians (currently it's decent people against corrupt MPs, a couple of years ago it was hard Brexiters against Parliament as a whole).
I don't think further inflating MPs' salaries to 7 or 8x the national average is going to help much.
I also don't think that there are thousands of talented people who would become fantastic MPs if they could bear the pay cut. Firstly because most people don't get paid more than MPs do, and also because I think the more moral (n.b. not ideological) would do it anyway and not be motivated by money.
Being an MP would be a very highly paid job by public sector standards - and I think they're the area of the public sector least in need of a pay rise to help make it seem more of a 'normal' salary to sales engineers.