The Latest Breaking News from Julia Davies

Minister declines to say whether Burnham will heed Lineker’s call for wealth tax

Former footballer Gary Lineker is among 120 UK millionaires urging the Government to tax wealth.

Evening Standard · Jul 23

Gary Lineker leads British millionaires telling Burnham: ‘We want to pay more tax’

Intervention comes as new prime minister announces series of policies to help ease cost of living

The Independent UK · Jul 22

Does the world have a billionaire problem? These millionaires think so

LET’S UNPACK THAT: As Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Brian Cox sign a letter calling for higher taxes on the super-rich, Helen Coffey reports on how ‘wealth shame’ can be a powerful motivator for those at the top to take accountability and try to make amends

The Independent UK · Nov 25, 2025

London is a major reason for the UK's inequality problem. Unfortunately, City leaders don't want to talk about it

In recent years, there has been growing evidence that the UK economy is in poor shape. While the latest economic figures suggest it performed better as the COVID pandemic receded than was previously reported, the performance of sectors such as manufacturing, construction and agriculture has been revised downwards, leading some…

The Conversation · Sep 5, 2023

Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality

Global elite told at London’s Savoy hotel of real risk of ‘civil disruption’ if more is not done to help struggling millions

The Guardian - UK · Jun 30, 2023

Dear Nadhim Zahawi: here’s what patriotic British millionaires do – we pay our proper taxes

Tax pays for our NHS, cares for our pensioners, educates our kids and defends our country. Anyone ‘careless’ about that is unfit to govern, says campaigner and philanthropist Julia Davies of the Patriotic Millionaires

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2023

One of us is a millionaire, the other a care worker. The cruel divide between rich and poor disgusts us both

This cost of living crisis is disastrous for one of us and will barely touch the other. The best answer is a wealth tax, say millionaire investor Julia Davies and care worker Winsome Hill

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2022