Review of the year - April 2012

Toby Melville/PA Wire

This April, George Osborne's claims of us all being 'in it together', felt particularly hollow. The economy made a surprise return to recession, amidst news that a million UK jobs had been lost in the UK over the past five years.

And it was all made that much worse with news of how the other half were living: from public sector fat cats sitting pretty on six-figure salaries, to a record number of billionaires residing in the UK.
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