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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

‘Some people must be earning millions’: inequality in the UK’s highest-earning constituency

Louis Margeite with his dog
Louis Margeite, a postal worker living on Pimlico’s Churchill Gardens estate, says the income gap is ‘just getting wider and wider’. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

“You have got to be kidding me,” says Louis Margeite. “If that’s the average salary, some people must be earning millions, because no one we know earns anything remotely close to that.”

The 52-year-old postal worker has just learned he lives in the parliamentary seat with the highest average salary: the Cities of London and Westminster, where the mean average for full-time workers is almost £80,000, according to HMRC statistics, and rising fast.

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