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Hello, welcome to the Sky News, All-Out Politics Podcast.

I'm Adam Bolton, and joining me today are the election expert and conservative peer Robert Haywood,

the research fellow at the Think Tank IPPR, Grace Blakely, Sky News's economics editor, Ed Conway,

and the head of Sky Data, Harry Carr.

We are going to talk about those European Parliament elections a little bit later on,

but we're going to start on perhaps the much bigger issue of inequality

as the Institute for Fiscal Studies launches an investigation of inequality in

this country concerned about what has been called an increase of deaths of despair. And the man

who's going to head this up is Sarangas Dayton, No, not the one you may have seen on telly,

but the highly respected economist,

he spoke to our economics editor, Ed Conway, about the task ahead.

A lot of people, you know,

there's upset with Westminster as they are with Brussels in some sense.

And, you know, their unhappiness is about feeling they're not represented

and that their views are not being held.

And that the professional politician class is not drawn from the people they know

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