The Observer view on Britain’s scandalous wealth inequality | Observer editorial

Official figures mask the growing income disparities dividing Britain

Britain needs to wean itself off measures of inequality that disguise more than they reveal about the gap between rich and poor.

So says the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which last week used the occasion of its 50th anniversary to launch a five-year quest for better measures of inequality.

One factor making it harder to determine wealth inequality is the lack of information about the top 1%