article_snippet: No-one should earn less than £3 an hour,' David Cameron (right) said after touring work beneath London on a station for the capital's new Crossrail link. '
article_snippet: Generally governments do what the Low Pay Commission says,' Mr Clegg said. 
article_snippet: Even though it was right that they earned less than full-time workers 'they do nonetheless need to be paid in a way that allows they to earn and learn, get they qualifications and then move on to full-time employment'.
article_snippet: The national minimum wage has been one of the most successful policies of recent years, thanks to the independence of the commission - its politicisation is worrying,' CBI director-general John Cridland said.
article_snippet: With one in five workers getting less than a living wage, this is nowhere near enough to end in-work poverty.
article_snippet: Britain's minimum-wage workers should be very fearful of the billions of pounds of cuts to government help for the low-paid that the Chancellor is planning if re-elected,' she said.