Under Margaret Thatcher inequality rose, stabilised under Major, then crept up again under Blair/Brown

The “Gini coefficient” is an internationally used measure of inequality, where zero corresponds with perfect equality (where everyone has the same income) and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality (where one person has all the income, and everyone else has zero income).

Source: Institute of Fiscal Studies http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/4637

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History shows left/right policies grow the economic cake equally. The difference is only in how the cake is divided

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