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Those with the broadest shoulders should be the ones paying for the crisis
The virus itself might not discriminate, but it has clearly – and often tragically – highlighted pre-existing inequalities in society, says LAURA SMITH
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IN A week where Jacob Rees-Mogg has dismissed the British public for “carping on” about struggling to get coronavirus tests, and Chris Grayling has been hired as an adviser to the owner of Britain’s top ports on £100,000 a year for around seven hours a week, there has never been a more urgent time to build class solidarity. 

The inequality in this country is blatant and the ruling class aren’t even attempting to hide it, so great is their belief that we will continue to let them get away with it. 

Millions of people across Britain will be facing unemployment alongside continuing demands for rent, utilities and debt payments as well as the worry of a second wave of coronavirus. 

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