Could raising minimum wage lead to higher unemployment?

The chancellor has chosen to raise minimum wage but has frozen the threshold for employers’ National Insurance contributions, meaning it could cost firms significantly more to hire new low-paid staff than it previously did.

Reporter Lewis Denison asked Rachel Reeves if it could drive up unemployment.

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