When David Cameron campaigned against the National Minimum Wage, wages of as little as £1.20 an hour were common and legal. 

That’s just £1.38 an hour in today’s prices.

So when he tries to tell you that he cares about families and people struggling to make ends meet, just imagine what it would be like to live on £1.38 an hour today. 

The counter above shows just how little you would have been paid since Monday morning this week.

David Cameron said the minimum wage "would send unemployment straight back up" but Labour has delivered a rising minimum wage and more people in work than ever before. 

This year marks the tenth anniversary of Labour passing the National Minimum Wage Act. It remains one of the government’s proudest achievements having benefited millions of people.

Almost everyone who works in the UK is legally entitled to be paid the National Minimum Wage – that includes people employed permanently, by an agency, part-time workers, casual workers, or people on a short-term contract.

Everyone deserves a proper wage, and we don’t want to go back to the days when people could earn just £1.20 for an hour’s hard work.

Ten years on Labour is building on this success and strengthening fairness in the workplace by making tips additional to the minimum wage.   

The following Conservative MPs voted against the National Minimum Wage - depriving hard working families fair pay.