Shortly after being elected in 2015, Holly sought to highlight what she beleived to be an injustice against those under the age of 25. Due to changes to minimum wage rates introduced by the Government, under 25s found themselves hundreds of pounds a year worse off than older colleagues .

Analysis by the House of Commons Library commissioned by Holly showed that someone working full time on the minimum wage, who was paid at the rate for 18 year olds, would earn £3,774 less per year than someone over 25 paid the higher national living wage (NLW).

Holly put forward a Private Members Bill which would ensure that all workers over the age of 18 would receive the full minimum wage. The bill had its Second Reading on July 6th 2018 however it has stalled in its progress to becoming law after MPs ran out of time to continue their debate. Whilst the Bill failed to pass, Holly is still committed to seeing the law change.

At the beginning of this year, Holly was thrilled to see the Labour Party publish its New Deal for Working People which, among many positive changes, pledges to introduce a genuine living wage for all adult workers. She has thrown her full weight of support behind these efforts and hopes to see this policy enacted.

The campaigning around the bill was well-received on social media, and saw young activists come to Parliament in support and received coverage from a number of news outlets. See the list below for a selection of stories about the campaign:

New Statesman

Huffington Post (here and here)

People Management Magazine

Personnel Today (specialist Human Resources news)

You can read Holly’s full speech to Parliament here.