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UK cannot duck covid inequalities

5th January 2021

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An IFS report highlights the fact that post-Covid the UK will need to make a genuine attempt to tackle inequality.

In a direct challenge to the notion that "We're All in This Together", it's clearly the case that the impact of the pandemic has fallen disproportionately heavily upon ethnic minority group and the most disadvantaged, and something has to be done to tackle this.

NEW: In a New Year’s message from our Deaton Review into Inequalities, we've published new analysis showing how various inequalities grew in 2020 and are unlikely to close again unless action is taken.

Read the report, funded by @NuffieldFound, here > https://t.co/P2gdmxor5B pic.twitter.com/yYFTNFEby0
— Institute for Fiscal Studies (@TheIFS) January 5, 2021

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