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England's World Cup kit sells for £160, but is made in a factory in Bangladesh where workers are paid as little as 21p an hour, it is claimed.

The official Nike shirt and shorts, part of the most expensive England kit ever, are reportedly made at a factory inside a government-controlled zone where female garment workers are paid as little as £1.68 a day.

The Daily Telegraph uncovered evidence of staff in Savar, near the capital Dhaka, working 60 hours a week.

In 2016, the FA gave Nike a 12-year contract extension worth £400million.

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MP Jo Stevens, a Labour member of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, called for an investigation.

She said: “The FA have a duty to oversee every aspect of England’s engagement with the World Cup, including the kit, which we should be proud of as a country. It will be hard to be proud if it turns out it was made on the back of people being exploited.”

The Clean Clothes Campaign said: “Their wages do not even cover basic needs, much less enable them and their families to have decent lives.

“An easy way for Nike to profit is making the fans pay a lot for the kits while workers are paid starvation wages.

“Fans should demand Nike change this exploitative business model.”

Bangladesh garment workers get a minimum monthly wage of £47.

Nike, which makes the England strip socks in Bulgaria, says it does business “ethically and sustainably” and suppliers must pay “at least the local minimum wage or prevailing wage”.

Football Association bosses said they had received “assurances that all England products are manufactured in accordance with the law”.