01-04-2016 15:51 via news.yahoo.com

Britain's new minimum wage feeds in to 'Brexit' debate

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - More than a million British workers were given a pay rise on Friday as a higher minimum wage came into force, an economic experiment that fed in to a tense political debate on whether the country should leave the European Union. Chancellor George Osborne last year announced a series of increases in the wage that will make it 13 percent higher than it would otherwise have been by 2020. A government minister who wants Britain to leave the European Union said on Fr
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