Posts by Richard Prothero

Mind the gap: why the UK might not be the most regionally unequal country

The relative prosperity of our nations and regions has been under scrutiny again with claims that the UK’s regional inequalities are among the world’s most extreme. But when our regional divide is compared with those of other countries it’s often a case of not comparing like with like.

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