Latest IFS release:

The national picture

Average (median) income in 2015–16 (the latest data available) was only 3.7% higher than before the recession (2007–0. With real wages currently falling and working age benefits and tax credits being cut, income growth since then is likely to have been very weak.

Evidence from data on employees’ earnings shows that those towards the very top (99th percentile) have been harder hit than those at the middle (median). Earnings at the 99th percentile are still around 10% below their pre-crisis level, compared with a 5% fall at the median. However, it should be noted that it is hard to track how the household incomes of the very richest have been changing.

Absolute poverty (according to the official government measure) has changed little over the last decade. This lack of progress is historically unusual and reflects the more general lack of real income growth. It follows especially large reductions in poverty over the preceding decade as the incomes of low-income households grew strongly.

So basically, the Tories have failed on absolute poverty, and the "success" in any reduction in inequality is due to the richest having had their earnings suppressed by the GFC and its after effects and are in spite of the fact that real wages are currently falling and wage growth for a DECADE has been very week.

So in summary the Tory strategy has been to make everyone worse off but allow the GFC to make the richest the most worse off. London has the most reduced inequality due to having had the most very high earners over the past 10 years. Your conclusion is bogus.

This is not a policy success story. It's a mask for failure.

The cabinet maybe haven't cooperated with innovative ideas like previous cabinets, possibly due to her failures and uncertain future. Or if they really are willing to let her ride out Brexit, she just isn't a leader of a team and getting down to policy drafting doesn't happen. So not a country leader or leader of people with her cold nature. Perfect.

COYP

Copying policies doesn't matter if they're the correct policies...afterall that's exactly how Blair got in...whether these policies are the correct ones though I guess is up for debate.

The Voice of Reason In An Otherwise Mediocre World

Sadly you just need to watch Question Time or listen to Any Questions to see that in action

There were far too many idiots in the conference hall already so he could not get in to give Corbyn his P45!

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.

Are you still using that reductionism?

Prejudice is about associating certain behavior with certain groups. It is a perception which is sometimes based on ignorance but often on experience. It is a self preserving, self serving mechanism which everyone has.

Get over it.