Government urged to reduce income inequality
Early Day Motion signed by more than forty MPs
by Friend Newsdesk
20th May 2011
Over forty MPs from at least six parties have urged the government to promote policies that reduce income inequality.
They have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM 1775) – a sort of parliamentary petition – arguing that ‘societies with smaller income differences between rich and poor have fewer health and social problems, such as teenage births, violence, mental illness and drug abuse’.
Signatories so far include MPs from the Conservatives, Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrats, DUP and SDLP. The Equality Trust say that people wanting to ask their MP to sign the EDM can use a form available on the organisation’s website.
