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Tim Farron writes… Fairer Votes: so close we can almost touch it

With just three weeks to go until the Scottish, Welsh and local elections as well as a little thing we like to call the most important referendum of our lives so far, this really is the final push to the finish line.

Let’s not pretend that our national poll ratings are going to give us a boost on the ground because they are not. Normally at this time of year we are preparing to buck national trends and create our own local success stories. Back in 1989, when the Lib Dems were on a poll rating of 0%, we’d just had …

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    "Inequality in the UK is not increasing". ??? It depends on how it's measured. https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/182967/economics/inequality-i...
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    I disagree with the author's starting point. Inequality in the UK is not increasing. There was a significant increase in inequality from about 1980-1994 but ...