Boris Johnson has launched a bold bid to claim the mantle of Margaret Thatcher by declaring that inequality is essential to fostering “the spirit of envy” and hailed greed as a “valuable spur to economic activity”.
In an attempt to shore up his support on the Tory right, as he positions himself as the natural successor to David Cameron, the London mayor called for the “Gordon Gekkos of London” to display their greed to promote economic growth.
Delivering the annual Margaret Thatcher lecture, Johnson also called for the return of a form of grammar schools .... http://www.theguardian.com
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Government cuts: Britain's poorest and most deprived areas hit hardest as society becomes ''unacceptably more divided'
Britain is becoming more divided as Town Hall funding cuts hit the poorer areas hardest, two new studies reveal today.
Deprived areas have lost an average of £100 more per person than the richest thanks to the Government’s austerity measures, one report found.
Councils in poor parts of the country have seen their spending slashed by 21.4% compared to 15.8% for the wealthy ones, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said.
The growing divide was confirmed by the town hall spending.... http://www.mirror.co.uk
