Labour’s sole focus should be closing Britain’s wealth gap | Polly Toynbee

While the super-rich get richer, those left at the bottom are in increasingly dire straitsNothing shocks any more in the realms of unimaginable wealth. The ranks of the global super-rich – those with more than $30 (£23m) – swelling by 13% last year barely merit a mention today, beyond the Guardian’s sharp-eyed wealth correspondent. The number of dollar billionaires has shot up by 15% too.It’s rude to call them rich so they prefer “ultra-high net worth”: