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The Tory anti-women agenda
The parliamentary posh boys can't begin to understand the impact their policies have on women - says BERNADETTE HORTON

As David Cameron and Nick Clegg gear up for further huge budget cuts should the Tories, either alone or in coalition, gain power again in 2015, one thing is certain - slashing of both social security and local services budgets will affect women more than any other group.

With Iain Duncan Smith already arguing with Cameron to cut winter fuel allowances, bus passes and TV licences from the elderly in 2015, women are in the firing line.

Every day more headlines and statistics emerge on a seemingly never-ending production line, telling women just how unimportant this government thinks they are.

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