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Jeremy Corbyn’s anecdote about how a Swedish journalist reacted to his ‘hard left policies’ is a must-watch

Jeremy Corbyn’s anecdote about a Swedish journalist’s assessment of his extreme hard-left policies has been going viral on social media.

In the clip, the former Labour leader – who has since been expelled from the party by his successor, Sir Keir Starmer – said he gave a short explanation about what he had proposed for Britain in 2019 to the journalist.

His party promised to bring in a Real Living Wage with equal rights at work from day one on the job.

They also pledged to end insecurity and exploitation by ending zero-hours contracts and strengthening trade union rights.

This is the response he got from someone from Sweden:

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Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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