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Jeremy Corbyn today savages Amazon for not doing enough to protect drivers, calling for new safety laws and better pay.

The Labour leader says Amazon cannot wash its hands of their treatment just because they do not work for it directly.

He tells bosses: “You can’t say it’s nothing to do with you. It’s everything to do with you.

“You’re a big company and you’re employing subcontractors to deliver for you and you are morally if not legally responsible for those conditions and the pressure on those people.”

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Mr Corbyn slams targets of up to 200 deliveries a day as “excessive” and warns that 14-hour shifts are dangerous.

He also points out that drivers come under extra stress when people are not home and they cannot make deliveries.

Congratulating the Sunday Mirror’s investigations, he adds: “Exposing it is an important first step. But it’s also about minimum wages and conditions – that’s why zero hours contracts should go.”

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'Bosses back to Victorian days'

By REBECCA LONG-BAILEY, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Victorian England was dominated by a factory system notorious for its appalling conditions.

People worked long, arduous hours, often involving repetitive and demanding tasks, for meagre pay.

They had virtually no protection from unscrupulous owners who made huge profits out of them.

A lot changed with the advent of the Labour Party , which led the charge to improve workers’ conditions, rights and wages. But in 21st-century Tory Britain we see the re-emergence of Victorian-like conditions, not only in the gig economy but elsewhere.

This is why Labour has a 20-point plan which includes giving all workers equal rights from day one and raising the minimum wage to £10 an hour.