Another Tory says there’s a ‘strong case’ for raising the minimum wage

This lunchtime, Treasury minister Sajid Javid said there is a ‘strong case to look at’ raising the minimum wage, joining Matt Hancock as a Conservative minister prepared to say in public that there is a case for doing so.

Amusingly, the Lib Dems are annoyed that the Tories have stolen their policy (in part 3 of the party's New Year resolution to find a new thing about their coalition partners to complain about every day).

But if the Lib Dems getting upset that the Tories are stealing a march on their fairness agenda is really the biggest problem with this wage increase, then the Tories should be quite chuffed. It always astonishes me that the Conservatives don't get more annoyed that their Coalition partners like to preen about occupying the moral high ground: it can't just be that all Tories are modest as like all politicians most of them are very good at boasting about other things.