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Theresa May calls the unions
Theresa May has just started to do something Tory Prime Ministers haven’t done for a very long time and conduct a phone-round of trade union general secretaries.
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Theresa May has just started to do something Tory Prime Ministers haven’t done for a very long time and conduct a phone-round of trade union general secretaries.
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Theresa May has called for the end of what she said was the “stigma” of social housing.