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Aug 2015
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Jeremy Corbyn on banks, Nato and the ris...

Financial Times
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Jeremy Corbyn, the surprise front runner in the UK opposition Labour party's leadership contest, speaks to Jim Pickard, the FT's chief political correspondent, about his views on the deficit, banks, media ownership and Nato.

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