CABINET ministers have wined and dined the boss of a company accused of dodging the minimum wage rise by slashing workers’ bonuses, the Morning Star can reveal.

Samworth Brothers, which supplies supermarkets with products like Ginsters pasties and Soreen malt loaf, has been named and shamed in Parliament for cutting night shifts, Sundays and overtime to compensate for the rise in the minimum wage.

The flagship policy of Chancellor George Osborne’s summer Budget was supposed to see Britain’s lowest paid workers get a wage boost from £6.70-an-hour to £7.20-an-hour from April.