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Time for a four-day week, says John McDonnell

JOHN McDONNELL trumpeted calls for a four-day working week today, insisting its “time has come.”

The Labour shadow chancellor was speaking at an event ran by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and Tribune magazine calling for a reduction in working hours.

He expressed fear that the rise of irregular working hours is “damaging to our social fabric. We used to work to live — and now we live to work. People are just working too long, and it’s not working.”

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