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Cameron ‘guarantees’ rights of workers after Remain win

DAVID CAMERON cynically offered a “guarantee” of workers’ rights yesterday if Britain stays in the European Union — just weeks after hitting trade unions with fresh restrictions.

The Tory Prime Minister twice used a speech during a cross-party Remain campaign event to claim employment rights were in danger from a break with Brussels.

Lining up alongside Labour’s former acting leader Harriet Harman, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron and Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, he said: “We come together today in an unprecedented show of cross-party unity.

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