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Feminist campaigners block entrance to Treasury in protest

A GROUP of young women blocked the entrance to the Treasury yesterday in protest at Chancellor George Osborne’s budget cuts to domestic violence services.

Members of feminist direct action group Sisters Uncut demanded the ring-fencing of funds for support programmes and women’s shelters.

Treasury officials were stopped from entering the building by a handful of women, one of whom was reportedly assaulted by a man who called her a “vile bitch.”

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