Government's Easter pay rise is not all it's cracked up to be | Richard Partington

The Tories finally deliver on Osborne’s living wage promise, but this is a masterclass in political deceit When George Osborne promised Britain a pay rise in the summer of 2015, fresh from electoral victory over Ed Miliband, he pledged a “national living wage” in an attempt to steal a march on his defeated opponent. Three years later, his promise means more than 2 million workers received an inflation-beating pay rise of 4.4% on Easter Sunday as the living wage rose for the sec