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Winner takes all Britain

Panorama: Winner takes all Britain
BBC One, Sunday, 7 November 2004 at 22:15 GMT
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Most peoples' earnings have been rising under Labour, but the top one per cent are doing spectacularly better than everyone else.

Click here for 10 facts about the super rich

Whether they're pop stars and footballers, or lawyers and City bankers - a few winners are taking an ever larger slice of our national income.

Steve Bradshaw investigates whether Britain's becoming an American-style Winner Takes All Society.

Click here to find out about the superstar effect

Should we welcome the winners for creating wealth and jobs - or are we sliding towards a new and dangerous kind of inequality?

Production team:
Reporter: Steve Bradshaw
Producer: Mike Rudin
Editor: Mike Robinson
Deputy Editors: Andrew Bell, Frank Simmonds

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