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Women are hit especially hard by the housing crisis – but there’s no good reason why they have to stay silent about it, says REBECCA WINSON

One, it was arse-clenchingly cold.

Two, I warmed up due to a mega blush caused by asking Jeremy Corbyn — one of only two Labour MPs who showed up, we invited them all — if he was from the Labour Party and him drily responding: “Your research precedes you.”

Three, the lukewarm but heart-wrenching lack of surprise I felt when I saw the story on a fellow protester’s placard: “Evicted For Being A Woman Who Answers Back.”

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