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A MULTIMILLIONAIRE Tory peer faced anger yesterday after he criticised campaigners fighting for a living wage for retail workers.
Lord David Wolfson is chairman of giant retail chain Next.
His firm pays its staff a measly £6.70 an hour, a little above the minimum wage. Workers under 21 get even less — £5.84 an hour. The living wage is £7.85 outside London and £9.15 in the capital.
The peer, worth an estimated £112 million, claimed the wage was “enough to live on” while announcing Next’s annual profits of £782m — up 12.5 per cent.
General union GMB national officer Mick Rix accused the Cambridge-educated peer of being “an out-of-touch, arrogant hypocrite.”
