Large businesses get richer, often using taxpayers money to subsidise low wages, while little firms really struggle.

Companies without enough ancillary business to subsidise low loan pricing face higher loan margins and shorter loan maturities.

It is also part of Ed Miliband's strategy for reducing the cost to the public purse of tax credits that currently subsidise low wages.

However, there are fears within the green industry that the government will come under further pressure to cut the levies used to subsidise low-carbon power.

Huge income disparities and increased casualisation of the workforce also means higher costs for the taxpayer subsidising low wages.

It has also helped tens of millions more taxpayers who had - disgracefully - subsidised low-paying employers through the benefits system for far too long.

Theresa May says the government is "investing in an economy for our future" and says that Labour's tax credits actually subsidised low wages.