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Andrew Amesbury
Wednesday, July 08, 2015
It was good to see the triumphalism of Iain Duncan-Smith as the New Living Wage was announced in the Budget earlier today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha0D6CVZ11s
"Fantastic"
and again
"Fantastic".
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