What do MEPs do and how much do they earn?

Three years after Brexit referendum, UK’s Members of the European Parliament to take up their seats this summer

Nigel Farage watching the World Cup in Brussels
Nigel Farage has been MEP for the Southeast England constituency since 1999
(Image credit: Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

The Government has signalled that British MEPs elected in the upcoming European elections must be ready to take up their seats, three years after the UK voted to leave the EU.

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