Fairness Foundation

/// FINDING COMMON GROUND FOR A FAIRER FUTURE

We work to change the debate around fairness in the UK, and to make the case that high levels of inequality are unfair, unpopular (85% of Britons are concerned about inequality), and bad for our society, economy and democracy.

What is fairness?

How fair is the UK?

The two minute guide to fairness

Fair Rules, Fair Growth

February 14, 2025 | Report

The rise and fall of the Meritwokecracy

February 10, 2025 | Comment

Inequality Knocks

January 26, 2025 | Report

The morality of inherited wealth

January 13, 2025 | Comment

Surviving the jungle

January 6, 2025 | Comment

Wealth, prosperity and power

November 1, 2024 | Report

Wealth Gap Risk Register

October 15, 2024 | Report

Deepening the Opportunity Mission

July 9, 2024 | Report

The Canaries: How unfair inequality is poisoning Britain

June 30, 2024 | Report

Rotten Luck: How and why we underplay the role of luck in life, and what to do about it

April 22, 2024 | Report

Is it fair to remove the two-child limit on benefits?

March 25, 2024 | Report

Minority Sport: How politicians and the media overestimate support for tax cuts and reliefs

February 23, 2024 | Report

Deep Opportunity: Tackling the structural barriers to opportunity

February 12, 2024 | Report

Unequal Kingdom: Our annual poll on public attitudes to inequalities and their impacts

January 31, 2024 | Report

Can we mend our times before the End Times?

January 15, 2024 | Comment

Socially Determined: New polling on public attitudes to health inequalities

November 20, 2023 | Report

Fairness in the House: 25 years of fairness in Parliament

October 18, 2023 | Report

Towards the manifestos: what’s the agenda for fixing poverty and tackling inequalities?

July 6, 2023 | Report

Fairly United: What Britons think about fairness and equality

July 3, 2023 | Report

Why doesn't the private sector talk more about socio-economic inequality?

June 26, 2023 | Comment

National Wealth Surplus: our polling on attitudes to wealth and wealth inequality

May 18, 2023 | Report

All reports

All comment

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EVENTS

The return of Trump

Liam Byrne MP

February 4, 2025

Great Britain?

Torsten Bell MP

November 4, 2024

Wealth Gap Risk Register

Launch webinar

October 15, 2024

Seven Children

Danny Dorling

September 17, 2024

Failed State

Sam Freedman

September 11, 2024

Deepening the Opportunity Mission

Launch webinar

July 9, 2024

The Canaries

Launch webinar

July 1, 2024

Left Behind

Paul Collier

June 24, 2024

How workers can reclaim the work ethic

Elizabeth Anderson

April 25, 2024

This Time No Mistakes

Will Hutton

April 22, 2024

Limitarianism

Ingrid Robeyns

March 28, 2024

The Inequality of Wealth

Liam Byrne MP

January 24, 2024

End Times

Peter Turchin

January 10, 2024

MEDIA

Here's the glaring problem with the government's approach to economic growth

Will Snell

February 14, 2025

Who scotches the watchmen?

Will Dunn

February 14, 2025

Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics

James Tapper

January 25, 2025

The Moral Maze: What should we do about inherited inequality?

Will Snell

January 8, 2025

The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation

Will Snell

October 29, 2024

Wealth inequality threatens all of us – what can Labour do about it in the Budget?

Jack Jeffrey

October 26, 2024

Britain’s wealth gap is growing. Its malign effects seep into all aspects of life. It’s a national disaster

Will Hutton

October 20, 2024

UK wealth gap surges by nearly 50% in under a decade, research finds

Andy Gregory

October 17, 2024

Why Keir Starmer should appoint a Secretary of State for Fairness

Will Snell

July 6, 2024

Poverty and inequality are slowly poisoning Britain. It could lead to a far-right victory in 2029

Will Snell

July 2, 2024

Spiralling inequality is a ticking timebomb for the next government

Julian Richer

June 30, 2024

‘A deeply unfair and unequal country’: report warns of unprecedented far-right gains in UK

James Tapper

June 30, 2024

Some are born lucky, so the left shouldn’t flinch from giving others a helping hand

Sonia Sodha

April 28, 2024

Abolishing non-dom status should just be the beginning

Guy Singh-Watson

March 6, 2024

Most Britons say poor people deserve support. So what do Sunak’s Tories do? Cut, cut, cut

Polly Toynbee

February 27, 2024

New austerity: can public services take any more cuts?

The Week

February 26, 2024

Blow for Sunak’s budget plan as fewer than 1 in 5 Tory voters want tax cuts if it means public spending cuts

Zoe Grunewald

February 23, 2024

The first step to our economic liberation is to tear up these crippling fiscal rules

Will Hutton

February 18, 2024

What we can do to protect people from dementia

Sir Michael Marmot

December 23, 2023

People blame the economy and work for ill-health – not just the NHS

Zoe Grunewald

November 20, 2023

Childcare and a new social contract

Will Snell

July 20, 2023

Rishi Sunak thinks voters don’t care about his vast wealth, but the pollsters aren’t so sure

Polly Toynbee

May 23, 2023

Even Conservative voters want higher taxes on the wealthy

Will Snell

May 18, 2023

A new mood of seriousness has taken root. Populist chaos won’t cut it any more

Will Hutton

May 14, 2023

A national consensus

Will Snell

May 3, 2023

Majority of people think the Government should fund minimum levels of provision for early years

Will Snell

April 5, 2023

Without proper investment, the government will drive the early years sector into the ground

Will Snell

March 20, 2023

Defining and communicating fairness can build support for change

Will Snell

September 26, 2022

Levelling up has to be government’s first priority

Will Snell & John Penrose

January 27, 2022

Tories care more about fairness than you might think

Will Hutton

December 9, 2021

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Fairness Foundation

/// FINDING COMMON GROUND FOR A FAIRER FUTURE

We work to change the debate around fairness in the UK, and to make the case that high levels of inequality are unfair, unpopular (85% of Britons are concerned about inequality), and bad for our society, economy and democracy.

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