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Status anxiety

Lefty myths about inequality

2 April 2015

2:00 PM

2 April 2015

2:00 PM

As a Tory, I’ve been thinking a lot about inequality recently. Has it really increased in the past five years? Or is that just scaremongering on the part of the left?

By most measures, there’s not much evidence that the United Kingdom became more unequal in the last parliament. Take the UK’s ‘Gini co-efficient’, which measures income inequality.

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