THE EVIDENCE
You're watching it happen in your own life — and the data backs you up. Report after report confirms the same thing: wealth is pulling away from work, and the gap is rigging the country against the people who earn their living.
From stagnant wages to unaffordable homes, sold-off hospitals to bought elections, the effects are deep, measurable — and mounting.
THE WEALTH GAP
4% → 22%
The combined wealth of Britain's billionaires is now equivalent to 22% of the country's entire GDP — up from just 4% in 1990. A fivefold rise in a generation.
Equality Trust, 2025
4x
Since 2008, the wealth of the Rich List has grown around four times faster than that of a typical household. Had ordinary wealth kept pace, the average household would be over £260,000 better off.
High Pay Centre, 2025
£468bn
The UK's 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the country combined — more than 34 million people.
Equality Trust, 2025
WAGES
122 x
The average FTSE 100 CEO is now paid 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker — a gap that keeps widening while pay for everyone else stagnates.
High Pay Centre, 2025
2027
Real wages aren't forecast to return to their 2008 level until 2027 — nearly two lost decades.
Resolution Foundation, 2022
£11,000
If pay had kept growing at its pre-2008 rate, the average worker would earn around £11,000 more a year.
Resolution Foundation, 2023
HOUSING
7.7 x
The average home in England costs 7.7 times the average full-time salary.
Office for National Statistics, 2024
36%
Private renters in England spend over a third of their income on rent — rising to 42% in London.
Office for National Statistics, 2024
71%
More than seven in ten lower-income private renters spend over 30% of their income just on keeping a roof over their head.
English Housing Survey, 2024
The NHS and public services
100,000 a week
Privately-provided treatment paid for by the NHS now regularly tops 100,000 patients a week — up more than 30,000 a week since 2021.
Nuffield Trust / IHPN, 2024
11.9 weeks
The typical wait for NHS treatment is now 11.9 weeks — up from 7.2 weeks before the pandemic.
NHS England, 2026
18% Core funding for England's councils
The money behind bin collections, road repairs, libraries and social care — is 18% lower per person than in 2010, even after recent top-ups.
IFS, 2024
70%
Council spending on youth services and Sure Start children's centres has been cut by around 70% since 2010.
IFS, 2024
40%
To shield social care, councils have cut spending on transport, culture and leisure, and planning by more than 40% per person since 2010.
IFS, 2024
BOUGHT INFLUENCE
1% → 35%
A decade ago, donations of £1m or more made up 1% of party funding. Today they make up over a third.
Transparency International UK 2024
84%
More than four in five Britons believe wealthy individuals use political donations to buy influence over government.
Transparency International UK, 2025
3,000 years
How long the average person would need to save every penny to match the largest single political donation by a living donor (£9m).
Transparency International UK, 2025
THE EXPERTS ARE ON OUR SIDE
r > g
Thomas Piketty's landmark Capital in the Twenty-First Century proved that when wealth grows faster than the economy, it piles up at the top and stays there — and that tax is the only thing that rebalances it. His fix: a progressive wealth tax.
Piketty, 2014
7 Nobel laureates
In July 2025, seven Nobel Prize-winning economists — including Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Esther Duflo and Daron Acemoglu — signed an open letter calling for a minimum tax on the ultra-rich.
Le Monde, 2025
30+ economists
More than 30 leading economists, among them Thomas Piketty and Ha-Joon Chang, wrote to the UK government urging a wealth tax on fortunes over £10m.
Tax Justice UK / Patriotic Millionaires UK, 2025
THE GOOD NEWS
WE'RE THE MAJORITY
Every political party
Majority support for a wealth tax spans Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem, Reform and Green voters alike.
YouGov, 2025
63% / 55%
Conservative and Reform UK voters back a wealth tax on the very richest — this isn't a left-vs-right issue.
Best for Britain / YouGov, 2025
THE FACTS ARE ON OUR SIDE.
NOW USE THEM.