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November 2024

Fields of broken dreams
How the farmers' protests over inheritance tax illustrate the impossibility of building a fairer society without tackling the underlying causes of…
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Will Snell
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Relive the past and inform the future
Our previous events with the Policy Institute are now available to listen to on your favourite podcast platform. Please send us your ideas for future…
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Will Snell
How can universities compensate for socio-economic inequalities?
A guest post by Josie Fraser, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Open University
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Trump's Omen
President Trump's re-election sends a warning to progressives around the world. If we don't fix inequality, the populists rise to power will continue.
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Wealth, prosperity and power
Half of the public expect poverty and the wealth gap to grow under the government's first term, according to new polling that we have carried out with…
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Will Snell

October 2024

The verdict on the Labour budget: Where it soars and stumbles
The Lead UK’s policy panel react to yesterday’s tax and spend plans
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Putting the broadest shoulders to the wheel
Wednesday's budget is an opportunity to ask those with the most to contribute more to our country
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Will Snell
Measuring the wealth gap
Last week we published new analysis showing that the wealth gap in Britain increased by almost 50% between 2011 and 2019 - and we can expect this trend…
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Will Snell
Wealth Gap Risk Register
Our new report setting out the evidence base for the impacts of wealth inequality in the UK on our society, economy, democracy and environment, the…
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Will Snell
Do we live in an accidental plutocracy?
As rumours circulate that the government is wobbling on some of its plans for tax reform in this month's budget, we ask whether the wealthy exert too…
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Launch of the Wealth Gap Risk Register
Sign up for our launch webinar on Tuesday 15 October to hear from Liam Byrne MP, Sonia Sodha of the Observer, Graham Hobson of the Patriotic…
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Will Snell
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