Toby Young Toby Young

Lefty myths about inequality

The Tories have nothing to be ashamed about when it comes to the last parliament’s record on poverty

Toffs and Toughs. Photo by Jimmy Sime/Getty Images 
issue 04 April 2015

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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