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Labour Party conference: Scrapping of Sunday trade restrictions ‘a betrayal’

TORY plans to obliterate Sunday trading restrictions are a “betrayal” of the British people, Labour conference affirmed yesterday.

Chancellor George Osborne announced proposals to relax laws in this year’s Budget, saying such a move would generate more than £200 million a year in additional sales in the capital.

But moving a motion at Labour Party conference yesterday, shopworkers’ union Usdaw general secretary John Hannett said: “For many retail workers Sunday is the only time you have.

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