Parliamentary secretary Andy Ellul has said he was “disappointed” that Bernard Grech ignored his personal invitation to attend a ceremony announcing an increase in the national minimum wage.

“I don’t want to be partisan because we didn’t introduce this measure for Laboruites or Nationalists, but for the nation,” Ellul said on ONE TV’s Paperscan this morning.

“However I must say I am disappointed that I personally invited Bernard Grech to attend this ceremony as a symbol of national unity,  but he didn’t turn up.”