Around one million workers across the UK have benefited thanks to a raise in the National Minimum Wage. Workers aged 22 and over will now be paid a minimum of £5.73 an hour, those aged 18-21 will be paid a minimum of £4.77 and hour and those aged 16 and 17 will be paid a minimum of £3.53 an hour.

The Labour Government are also preparing a further crackdown on bosses who fail to pay the minimum wage, with tough new penalties set to come into force next April.

When David Cameron campaigned against the National Minimum Wage, wages of as little as £1.20 an hour were common and legal. He said that the minimum wage "would send unemployment straight back up" but Labour has delivered a rising minimum wage and more people in work than ever before.

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