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Britain’s wealth gap is growing, its malign effects seep into all aspects of life. It’s a national disaster | Will Hutton

Wealth distribution reeks of unfairness and poses as big a threat to the country’s wellbeing as climate changeBritain is a wealthy country, but the gap between our richest and poorest 10% is now, the US excepted, the highest in the developed world. Accelerating since the financial crisis, wealth inequality casts a shadow over all our lives, affecting health, housing, education, productivity, enterprise, the media and even the vitality of our democracy.It has reached the point, a Fairness Foundation report last week argued, that the threat to our collective wellbeing means it should join climate change and terrorism on the government’s national risk register. Continue reading...

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