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31 October 2016

What Jacob Rees-Mogg and President Erdoğan have in common

They're no fans of central bankers. 

By Julia Rampen

One is the prickly President of Turkey, who recently saw off a coup and is now purging government employees he suspects of following his deadly rival.

The other is a traditionalist Conservative backbencher who once went campaigning with his nanny

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