The Guardian view on raising the minimum wage: slowly does it | Editorial

Higher pay rates would mean increased productivity and a lower benefits bill, but it can’t be done all at onceBritain’s low-paid army will get a rise whoever wins the election. Theresa May is committed to increase the minimum wage to £9 an hour by 2020. Jeremy Corbyn has trumped that by saying all workers, not just those over 25, should be on £10 an hour by the time the decade is out.There was not always such cross-party consensus. The Conservatives fought hard against th