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We’ve looked at some of the claims in Keir Starmer’s speech today, on: 🔵Regional inequality in the UK 🔵Burglaries 🔵Funding for Labour’s NHS training plans

“We have an economy that hoards potential and a politics that hoards power. And it’s no coincidence – no accident – that this leaves us with more regional inequality than anywhere else in Europe.”

There are many different measures of regional inequality, so without knowing exactly what Mr Starmer was referring to it’s difficult to say how accurate this claim is. The UK appears to be a more regionally unequal country than the OECD average, though how much more unequalHowever, Mr Starmer’s claim isn’t entirely consistent with recent analysis of regional inequality published by the Labour party itself.

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