🧵 The Political History of Inequality in Britain: 1970–2025 From postwar fairness to neoliberal fracture: how Thatcher’s revolution reshaped the UK’s economic divide—and why it never went into reverse.

Since the 1970s, the UK’s rich got richer — and it wasn’t by accident.
📉 Gini data
📍 Timeline from Wilson to Sunak
📸 Thatcher at No.10
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