This week’s George Orwell award for doublespeak goes to Jeremy Corbyn.

The Labour leader has repeated ad nauseam that he’s “for the many, not the few”. But this apparently does not apply to business policy. His economic speech this week – trailed misleadingly as about opportunities from Brexit – focused on the small 10pc of the economy and 8pc of employment in manufacturing. The growing service sector which dwarfs it was largely ignored.

Corbyn’s certainly not the first politician to hold a manufacturing fetish. Whereas economists are usually indifferent towards industrial structure, many MPs seem to prefer physical “stuff”. But Corbyn’s romanticism is more deep set.

Though he pays lip service to Britain being a hub for future industries, his proposals prioritise propping up domestic shipbuilding, train production, and passport producers through tilting public procurement in favour of domestic firms. The very title of his speech – “Build it in Britain again,” an echo of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan – is a paean to reviving traditional manufacturing jobs.

Corbyn didn’t advocate new post-Brexit tariffs thankfully, although he would maintain a UK-EU protectionist customs union.