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No 10 … but do prime ministers really move the stock market?

New prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie outside No 10 in May 1997. Photograph: Martin Godwin
The headlines began warning us months ago of stock-market meltdown should the opposition win control after 7 May. “Shares tipped to fall if Labour wins next year’s general election” the Daily Telegraph announced in October, and some business leaders have echoed the sentiment, […]