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Tory Britain has become a land of ‘grotesque extremes,’ TUC warns
New data reveals soaring pay among top chief executives as workers struggle with the longest pay squeeze in 200 years
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TORY Britain has become a land of “grotesque extremes,” the TUC warned yesterday after new data revealed soaring pay among top chief executives as workers struggle with the longest pay squeeze in 200 years.

The High Pay Centre said the average annual wages of FTSE 100 chief executives had ballooned last year by a whopping £500,000, while the vast majority of people were hit with 40-year high inflation and skyrocketing energy bills.

The crippling disparity follows 15 years of plummeting take-home pay since profit-obsessed bankers sparked the massive 2008 financial crash, resulting in the most drawn-out salary squeeze since the Napoleonic wars.

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