Labour and SNP opponents tore into the chancellor ahead of his Spending Review on Wednesday amid reports that Sunak will scarp a rise in the minimum wage paid to many care home staff and frontline covid workers.Sunak looks set to cancel a proposed five per cent rise in the national living wage for two million workers, citing fears that it will put companies already under strain our of business.The hourly legal minimum wage was due to rise from £8.72 to £9.21 in April.
But the chancellor could instead keep the rise to around two per cent, in line with inflation, to £8.90 an hour, when he delivers his statement on Wednesday.Anneliese Dodds MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said the move would rob key workers of earnings.Dodds said: “It’s.
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