Meet the begging bowl barons: How YOU are helping to fund international charity chiefs whose eye-popping pay is bankrolled by BRITISH aid, by Ian Birrell.

Bosses of charities handed millions in British foreign aid to fight poverty in poor nations are creaming off huge six-figure salaries and hefty bonuses, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

An investigation by this newspaper has discovered that charity chiefs are taking home astonishing pay packages worth up to £618,000 a year and ramping up spending on senior staff.

Beneficiaries include former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who takes home £530,922 as president of the US-based International Rescue Committee, which has been given £3.6 million British aid. He has been complaining that a shortage of cash hinders his group from helping people in need. …

Mr Miliband’s pay package is among the biggest in aid circles, but at least 13 others at his charity earn significantly more than the Prime Minister’s £143,462 salary.  …

Mr Miliband, who has been seen hanging out with celebrities such as George and Amal Clooney and Sir Patrick Stewart, is reported to be paying almost £9,000 a month for a stylish apartment in New York’s Upper West Side. …

Another charity — given £7.3 million from British taxpayers to ‘expand economic opportunity’ in Asia — shared £2.25 million last year among its ten most senior staff.

Our global elite are simply outrageous in their sense of entitlement.