Politics · 7 hours ago
Tory Frontbencher Backs Five-Year Freeze on Minimum Wage
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A Conservative shadow business minister, Andrew Sharpe, has endorsed a Prosperity Institute report calling for the national living wage to be frozen at £12.71 for five years to help young people find work. The thinktank admits low-paid workers could lose about £8,900 over that time. Labour's business minister Kate Dearden called the plan tin-eared, saying the Tories want the lowest paid to be worse off.
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