More than half the top 1% of UK income taxpayers live in London and the south east and are “overwhelmingly male and middle aged”, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The government has side-stepped “the cruellest benefit cut in history” with the latest universal credit changes, according to the chair of the work and pensions committee.
The UK has scored top within the EU and fourth within G20 nations for the number of women it employs in senior government roles, global advisory firm EY has found.
