Square rally on rents
By Philip Wade
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ABOUT 2,500 council tenants from all over Britain rallied in London's Trafalgar Square yesterday in protest against the Tory "fair rents' Act, which comes into force today.
They later marched to Downing Street to deliver a resolution calling on the Tory government to withdraw the Act. Carried unanimously by the rally, it also called on all Labour councils to refuse implementation and not to evict tenants refusing to pay the rises of around £1 which will result.
Earlier Mrs Millie Miller, leader of the Labour council in Camden, London, said:
'Camden doesn't feel happy, safe or secure in its confrontation with the government, but we feel we have to make this fight.
'All the cards are stacked against your elected local representatives. The fight is in your hands' The rally was organized by the National Association of Tenants and Residents.
Before it began, about tenants and others marched Camden to the Square.
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