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What the UK economy would look like under Jeremy Corbyn

“They looked like they were meeting the Gremlins”, is how one of Labour’s Treasury team remembers a meeting with senior UK civil servants ahead of the 2017 election. Jeremy Corbyn’s party was yet to surge in the polls and expected to take a thorough beating.

For the officials, required to meet the opposition ahead of an election, this was a matter of going through the motions.

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Jim Pickard is a columnist with the Financial Times. Connect with Jim on Twitter.

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