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Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced a new national living wage for the United Kingdom, set to reach £9 an hour by 2020. The announcement is viewed as a political maneuver to position Osborne as the next Prime Minister. The policy mandates a starting rate of £7.20 for workers aged 25 and over beginning in April.
A clip from the British Parliament features Prime Minister David Cameron discussing the Chancellor of the Exchequer joining Twitter. The hosts reference Cameron's 2009 remark that "too many tweets make a twat." They find the exchange in the House of Commons to be a trivial waste of public time during a budget discussion.
