Founder of Wetherspoon’s uses dismal set of financial figures for pub chain to launch another broadside against paying staff higher wages
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Multi-millionaire Tim Martin said the rules, which force employers to pay £7.20 an hour from April rising to £9 by the end of the decade, would force more pubs to pull down the shutters.