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Luke James: Your speech is on economic inequality across Britain — a theme you’ve come back to again and again as an MP. Why is it so important?
Jonathan Edwards: There is no doubt the UK is completely lopsided, with so much wealth concentrated in the south-east.
It’s the most unequal state in the EU. Nine of the 10 poorest parts of northern Europe are in the UK and the poorest of those is my part of the world — west Wales and the valleys. And yet the UK is also home to the richest part of the EU in London.
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