Has The Time For A Wealth Tax Come?

The world’s richest 1% saw their wealth increase by a staggering £1 trillion in 2017. Britain’s richest 1% currently own more than twenty times as much wealth as the poorest 20% of the country. All of this is part of a trend of widening wealth inequality in the UK, with such inequality among the worst in the West. To top that, rising inequality is having negative effects on growth, social mobility, child well-being and quality of life. This injustice is more glaring than ever,