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Chancellor Rishi Sunak with Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a media briefing in Downing Street, London
SEX WORKERS are demanding emergency funds from the government, warning that the loss of income caused by the coronavirus crisis could reduce many of them to destitution.
The English Collective of Prostitutes, based in north London, has made an urgent call for sex workers to be entitled to the same financial support as others hit by the economic fallout from the pandemic.
In a statement on Wednesday, the collective said: “Many of us, and the families who depend on our income, will face destitution if we can’t access whatever emergency money workers win from the government.”
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