As part of a campaign in the autumn of 2007, the TUC produced a fact sheet listing ten inequalities. The main ones are set out below

• The top 1% of earners own 21% of the nation's wealth. The bottom 50% own only 7%. So the top 1% earners own 3 times as much as the bottom half of earners.

• The UK has twice as many poor children as Sweden, Finland and Denmark.

• The average house price has gone up four times faster than the average wage over the last ten years.

• Boosting benefits sufficient to halve child poverty would cost each year about a third of the cost of last year's city bonuses.

• Of the 12 EU or OECD countries wealthier than the UK, 11 are more equal (when measured using the Gini coefficient)

• The UK is the third most unequal country in Europe, and its citizens are the second most likely to be the victim of crime.

• Only 6 out of the 18 OECD economies provide less training at work for those with no or low skills.

• A son of wealthy parents leaving school in the 1970s would, on average by his early thirties earn 17.5% more than a son of poor parents. For the 1980s school leavers, the gap has risen to 25%.

• If trends continue, by 2012 the CEOs of the FTSE 100 companies will be earning more than £5 million per year, 150 times more than the average full time wage.

• The richest fifth pay £18 tax on every £100 of disposable income, while the poorest fifth pay £30. (because so much of low incomes goes on value added taxes).