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UK economic model is broken claims Archbishop

8th September 2017

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A report by the IPPR think tank’s commission on economic justice, featuring input from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has concluded that the UK's economic model is broken.

READ > UK’s economic model is broken, says Archbishop of Canterbury on our new Commission on #EconomicJustice report https://t.co/SjKJzhPrnS
— IPPR (@IPPR) September 5, 2017

What is meant by that is that it is producing an unfair distribution of income, with profits largely going to corporate profit rather than being redistributed in higher wages. So far, so Piketty...

The archbishop of Canterbury says the UK's economic model is 'broken' https://t.co/byxXtdffmr
— Financial Times (@FT) September 5, 2017

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