Armchair Critic: What Corbynomics could mean for financial advisers

The Labour leader may be 6/1 with Betfair to be the next PM, but what would an unlikely victory mean for financial services?

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Professional Adviser's Armchair Critic Brendan Llewellyn examines what Jeremy Corbyn - as a viable future PM or not - could mean for financial services...

It's fair to say that, since storming to victory in the Labour leadership elections, Jeremy Corbyn has not been embraced by the media, business, finance or the wider electorate. His early standing in the polls is dismal and he is not expected to be the next Prime Minister (6/1 with Belfair; George Osborne is at 8/11.) There is perhaps one saving grace: a You Gov Poll suggested only 9% would support a military coup in the event of a Labour victory in 2020. To be such a man of the left in the UK is deeply unfashionable; Corbyn is 66, has shirt collars that leave alarming gaps, wears sho...

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