A COMPANY owned by a family of millionaire Tory donors has sacked a whistleblowing worker who exposed its efforts to dodge paying the new “National Living Wage.”

Samworth Brothers, which made pre-tax profits of £41.7 million last year, is at the centre of a scandal in which companies have reacted to the introduction of the higher minimum wage on April 1 by cutting workers’ terms and conditions.

The food giant, which supplies products such as Ginsters cornish pasties to major supermarkets, has slashed overtime, night shift and Sunday rates — even cancellingpaid tea breaks.