<span style="color: #222222;">In Britain, Boris Johnson's government today decided to increase the minimum wage of the workers by more than four times the rate of UK inflation from next year. In a statement, the government said, a 6.2-percent increase from April will take the national living wage for workers aged 25 and over from 8.21 pounds to a minimum of 8.72 pounds. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In the recent general election, Johnson's Conservative party's victory came mainly with support from economically struggling pro-Brexit areas. The new government said, it was the biggest increase in the wage since 2016. Almost three million people would be benefited from the increase.<br />'' <br />'' During the election campaign, Johnson pledged more investment to reverse nearly 10 years of austerity measures under his predecessors.<br />'' <br />''<br />''But the British Chambers of Commerce said, above-inflation pay increases came at a difficult time for hard-pressed businesses amid economic uncertainty.</span><br />