‘I don’t have enough for a house’: Londoners on living wage

We ask Londoners about rise in national living wage.

Transcript

00:00Well, fortunately, I'm a pensioner, but I still think that pensions will not keep pace

00:05with the triple lock.

00:09I think it's opening itself up to a lot of people who basically are going to look for

00:15benefits and not work, basically.

00:19And yeah, so I don't think it, I think inflation is going to get worse as well.

00:26My personal view is it's extremely expensive to live in London.

00:30I believe that the wages have not increased in line with inflation.

00:35I understand that we've been through an austere kind of time throughout the last five or six

00:39years due to the conservative policies.

00:43This year is the first year from Keir Starmer, who has taken a Labour initiative, trying

00:49to get people from grassroots to perhaps be a little bit entrepreneurial.

00:54I've not got enough to invest in a house.