Divided Britain: health and income gap larger than any other wealthy country

Some of the UK regions are worse off than Turkey, Romania and Poland

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Blackpool, where annual disposable income is £48,000 less per person than in Kensington, London
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Britain’s regional differences are greater than those of any developed country in the world, a study has found.

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