Nouveaux Riches can thank Tony Blair

The journalist Marcello Sorgi looks at Tony Blair's economic record. "If you want to know which area has shown the greatest growth in the Blair decade, the answer is wealth. Not traditional or family wealth, protected by good manners or the outmoded ways country gentry. No, in fact it's the Nouveaux Riches, those ultra rich with their rites and symbols, super houses, private planes and huge yachts. ... At this time of analysis, as the leader's exit approaches, the paradox of a left wing government coming to the aid of the most affluent classes can be expressed in one single statistic. in 2006, the assets of the ten richest people in the United Kingdom is close to 60 billion sterling (nearly 90 billion euros)."

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