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Even at eight hours, a very large number of people would be affected. From the information available to me, I estimate that between 20% and 25% of the UK’s part-time workers would be affected by this measure. To push that number higher would be to take a wrecking ball to the part-time working practices of millions of people in shops, restaurants, care homes, pubs and many other consumer-facing businesses which, by their nature, have peaks and troughs in demand.