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Professorial Research Fellow, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science

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July 31, 2026

Britain’s quarter century: wealth and widening inequality

Abigail Taylor, University of Birmingham; John Colley, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick; Kenneth Gibb, University of Glasgow; Mike Savage, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Steve Schifferes, City St George's, University of London

How finances and the economy have changed over 25 years.

Protesters outside the Treasury in London call for the UK government to address wealth inequality by increasing taxation of Britain’s richest individuals, March 2025. Andrea Domeniconi/Alamy

November 6, 2025

The UK’s wealth ‘timebomb’ – and how to defuse it

Mike Savage, London School of Economics and Political Science

The case for taxing wealth has historically come from the political mainstream – so why is it so unpalatable now?

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