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The financial class is rattled at the prospect of a Corbyn-led government
There is an alternative to allowing a tiny unaccountable elite to run the economy and the planet into the ground, says DAVID WHYTE
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during Prime Minister's Questions

IT IS clear that the financial class is intensely worried about the consequences of a no-deal Brexit.  

Yet the signs are that it may well be more worried about the prospects of a general election in which Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour has a fighting chance.  

After weeks of nervous Johnson-related headlines, the FT led with a Labour-baiting story proclaiming that the party’s proposals to transfer share ownership to workers “would cost UK companies £300 billion.”  

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