Alison Thewliss, the SNP Treasury spokeswoman who uncovered the data, claimed that the analysis showed “independence is the only way to keep Scotland safe from Tory cuts”.
Five countries with populations similar or smaller to Scotland, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, sat higher in the table of equality than the UK.The Commons research, using the so-called Gini coefficient of proportions of the population against proportions of income they receive, is confirmed the findings of previous studies.A a 2016 report by Oxfam, which found the accumulated wealth of Britain’s richest one per cent is more than 20 times the total of the poorest fifth, and concluded “the UK is one of the most unequal developed countries in the.
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