I don’t want to sound alarmist, but inequality — whether socioeconomic, regional, racial, gender, class-based, or disability-based — is getting out of hand. Consider the following statistics, which the Fairness Foundation (an organisation I founded) collates in its Fairness Index:
• Some 15 million people in the UK, almost 25 per cent, are living in poverty, while the richest 20 per cent own two thirds of the country’s wealth and less than 1 per cent own half the land.
• Disadvantaged children are almost 19 months behind their peers in terms of learning outcomes by the time they take their GCSEs.
• People living in the richest areas of the UK enjoy an average of 18.5 more years of healthy life than the poorest 10
