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The British government of Boris Johnson announced on Tuesday a sharp rise in the minimum wage from April , almost three weeks after its overwhelming electoral victory that was largely due to the support of the most depressed regions favorable to Brexit, an announcement that worries The businessmen.

The minimum wage for employees over 25 years will increase 6.2% on April 1 to move to 8.72 pounds per hour (10.2 euros) , said the Treasury.

This constitutes "the greatest increase in value" since the creation in 2016 of the minimum wage in its current form, which received 2.8 million Britons , said Boris Johnson, quoted in a statement.

The announced increase represents four times the annual inflation rate of November (1.5%) and coincides with the increase in the cost of living after the Brexit referendum in 2016, which affected the British currency, although the trend has moderated In the last months.

This announcement comes less than three weeks after the victory won in the British elections by the conservative party , the most forceful since Margaret Thatcher in the 80s.

Johnson's party snatched seats held by Labor for decades in central and northern England, in the once workers and depressed regions , very favorable to Brexit.

Concerned about forgetting the austerity imposed by his party in the last ten years before a Labor Party left on the left , the Prime Minister promised in his campaign significant expenses in public health services and the police, investments in infrastructure and gestures for the poorest.

However, Tuesday's announcement was criticized by the British Chambers of Commerce. Its co-director general, Hannah Essex, is concerned about a measure that will impact corporate finances "in a period of great economic uncertainty" and ask the government to compensate for the cost.

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