Claim: The minimum wage should be £18 an hour, because in 1999 one hour's pay at minimum wage could buy you 72 Freddos, but in 2017 it could only buy you 30 Freddos.
Fact-check: The price of Freddos has risen five times faster than inflation - Full Fact
Verdict: actually, you could have got 36 freddos in 1999. more broadly, freddos are not a good measure of inflation. the price of freddos rose about five times faster than inflation from 1999 to 2017, but the minimum wage also rose above inflation in that period.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joël Reland
Date published: 2019-09-11T00:00:00