Measured in this way, inequality in the UK has even declined a little since the 2008 financial crisis, though that fact has not made the continued success of the country’s richest citizens, especially bankers, any easier for those on the left to stomach. But, as Chapter 2 argued for the West as a whole, the inequality grievance is no longer simply a matter of incomes. It is now more importantly a matter of the inequality of political voice and influence over public policy that big differences in wealth can bring.
