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		</div><p>Unions in the UK have hailed Labour&#8217;s election success and said policies must now be brought forward to boost workers&#8217; pay and rights.</p>
<p>TUC general secretary Frances O&#8217;Grady said the next British government must deliver a &#8220;new deal&#8221; for workers. &#8220;This election was about bread and butter issues &#8211; what needs to change for ordinary working people. &#8220;And no wonder &#8211; if current trends continue, in five years time nearly four million people will be in insecure work and the average wage is still £1,200 less than it was in 2008.&#8221;</p>
<p>She called for policies such as banning zero-hour contracts, increasing the minimum wage and delivering a &#8220;long overdue&#8221; pay rise for nurses, midwives and all public servants to be implemented. She added: &#8220;It&#8217;s clear that there is no mandate for a no-deal Brexit. The Government should go back to the drawing board and negotiate a Brexit deal that puts UK jobs, decent wages and workers&#8217; rights first.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, said: &#8220;It looks like young people in particular have been inspired to vote in greater numbers in this election with a number of seats in towns and cities with universities and colleges changing hands. &#8220;This is really encouraging and a vindication of all those who worked so hard to encourage young people to register to vote, and to vote for the first time.&#8221;</p>
<p>Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said: &#8220;Millions of voters supported policies that just two years ago were condemned as fringe ideas &#8211; re-nationalising the railways, scrapping student debt, building new homes. &#8220;Jeremy Corbyn has shifted the political debate decisively in favour of working class people by working towards what is fair and just.</p>
<p>&#8220;It seems that the Tory party&#8217;s austerity agenda may have had its day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tim Roache, general secretary of the GMB union, said: &#8220;Despite their election rhetoric, it&#8217;s the Conservative party that look likely to form a Coalition of Chaos. &#8220;If that is the case, Labour will be a credible, forceful, united opposition that shows the electorate we&#8217;re a government in waiting.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, paid tribute to Mr Corbyn and his team for their &#8220;superb&#8221; campaign.<br />
He said: &#8220;Jeremy Corbyn is delivering a different kind of politics. Unions must now build on this and deliver a different kind of trade union movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>Public and Commercial Services union leader Mark Serwotka said: &#8220;This election has shown there&#8217;s huge enthusiasm for an alternative to the Conservatives&#8217; failed policies of austerity.&#8221;<br />
Mike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect, said: &#8220;It is clear that these results are a rejection of a hard Brexit and austerity at any cost.&#8221;</p>
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