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The unspoken inference to the footballers thing is they don't deserve money because they're generally working class or (gasp) foreigners. He wasn't out asking merchant bankers, opera singers or cabinet ministers. It's typical Tory class ridden ********ry.
I thought he was specifically asked about footballers at the time?
But you're probably right that he wouldn't have said yes had the question been about bankers though.

I think there's a lot of reasonable arguements that footballers are overpaid without the idea that they're working class (is that even true anymore?) and foreigners. Maybe I'm giving them too much benefit of the doubt there though.

The call for him to have a reduced salary on the back of it seemed a bit of a non-starter for me too. MPs don't get paid a huge amount of money for what they do and he in particular is one of the ones who'll have been busier than ever before. He's world's apart from an elite footballer on £100k+ a week.