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Anti-austerity campaigners demand government protect workers and the vulnerable from coronavirus
The People’s Assembly published a list of demands, including extending statutory sick pay to all workers and rent freezes

CAMPAIGNERS demanded today that the government immediately puts safeguards in place to protect precarious workers and vulnerable people from the coronavirus pandemic. 

Anti-austerity group the People’s Assembly published a list of demands, including extending statutory sick pay to all workers and rent freezes. 

The group accused the Tories of “refusing to act” to contain the virus and protect vulnerable people.

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