THE UK risks experiencing levels of inequality last seen during the era of the Great Depression if the Tory government continues an austerity drive, a leading social expert has warned.
Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography at the University of Oxford, said a map of mortality rates he previously drew up showed in the 1930s there were “two Britains” which developed – one with high mortality rates and the other with much lower deaths.
He warned if the trend is beginning again and will be repeated if the UK Government “carries on as they have been doing since 2010”.
