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Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist, formerly BBC social affairs editor. Her latest book An Uneasy inheritance, my family and other radicals is out in June
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This thinktank exposed fat cats and obscenely high pay. Guess what has happened to it?

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By Polly Toynbee Verified
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Shock ricocheted around the world of social research this week with the sudden news of the imminent closure of the High Pay Centre (HPC). Founded in 2011 by the former Guardian business editor Deborah Hargreaves to focus on analysis of extreme pay at the top and the widening pay gap between CEOs and their average employees, its closure feels like the death of an idea. Others campaign on tax and redistribution but the HPC was concerned with “predistribution”.
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Sleaze is back and children are hungry – for Project Burnham, these have to be top priorities

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By Polly Toynbee Verified
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A young Andy Burnham supporter in Ashton in Makerfield, 19 June 2026. Photograph: Darren Staples/AFP/Getty Images On the day the new prime minister steps into No 10, the heap on his doormat will be ceiling-high with missives imploring, advising, warning and counselling. No doubt there will be many pearls of wisdom and some bad ideas too. Each one will involve getting or spending money, decisions for his first totemic 100 days.
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Sleaze is back and children are hungry – for Project Burnham, these have to be top priorities

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By Polly Toynbee Verified
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