TORY Scottish small business spokeswoman Rachael Hamilton has been exposed for advocating abolition of the national minimum wage.

The South Scotland MSP, who came third in East Lothian on May 7 and was elected for the first time from the regional list, argued that businesses should be able to pay staff as little as they want.

“Why do politicians think they have a right to decide the minimum wage? It’s businesses who pay wages,” she wrote to followers on Twitter in May 2015.