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Labour chiefs today denied reports they are looking at a radical plan to give all workers a four-day week.

Reports surfaced in Sunday newspapers that the party is planning to launch a "policy review" that could pioneer the idea.

But this morning sources close to both Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell distanced themselves from the reports.

It comes weeks after TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "I believe that in this century we can win a four-day working week."

A report commissioned for Labour, Alternative Models of Ownership, also suggested a "shorter working week to fairly share productivity gains, that could be introduced gradually".

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A senior Labour source was quoted telling the Sunday Times: "A policy review is expected to be announced before the end of the year.

"It won't happen overnight but a four-day working week is an aspiration that fits in with the party's approach to rebalancing the economy in favour of the worker as well as the party's overall industrial strategy."

But a Labour spokesman said: "A four-day working week is not party policy and it is not being considered by the party."