"Of course, work should pay, but after 14 years of Tory budgets, income inequality is higher than any other large European country.
Middle-income earners are now 20% poorer than their peers in Germany. Real wages are not forecast to recover to their 2008 level until 2028 meaning that UK workers are now on course to have endured twenty years of declining living standards"
Mhairi Black: Jeremy Hunt’s Budget shows the rich getting richer | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24173718.mhairi-black-jeremy-hunts-budget-shows-rich-getting-richer/?ref=eb&nid=1302&u=e97c2dcafd40a9847d6cdf27f8ed9354&date=090324
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