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Unions vs workers – this is David Cameron’s chance to strike back

We shouldn’t put up with this blackmail and arrogance — and with a majority Tory government, we don’t have to

11 July 2015

9:00 AM

11 July 2015

9:00 AM

The People’s Assembly, the self-appointed left-wing pressure group behind the recent anti-austerity demonstrations, portrays itself as the voice of the masses struggling under oppressive Tory rule. It claims that no fewer than 250,000 demonstrators went to its rally in central London last month (a figure dutifully regurgitated by broadcasters). But photographs of the event in London indicate no more than 25,000 attended.

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