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The claim

"Who raised it [the national living wage] by record sums? It was this one-nation Conservative government"

Rating

Looking at those top rates, the biggest cash increase was the Conservatives' 50p rise to £7.20 an hour in 2016. But the biggest increase in percentage terms was Labour's rise from £3.70 to £4.10 in 2001.

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