I just read the speech. Simplistic attack on the rich, "people held back by a system that is rigged for the rich", "the elites who are determined to hijack Brexit" [the funniest and most meaningless line I think], "corporate interest plundering our NHS" [which parts of the NHS had been privatised under May?], "The Conservatives only stand up when taking orders from their billionaire friends who hoard our country's wealth in tax havens.", "giving big business and the richest in society tax giveaways worth tens of billions of pounds".

His solution to what he sees as the great evil of people being rich is to take the money from them and give it to people who are not rich. Somehow this is supposed to make the economy 'fairer' and magically generate loads more wealth that we can spend on various state run whelk stalls. I suppose the newly enriched poorer people would be better off for five minutes, until the country reverts to some sort of Cuban/Venezuelan shambles. Then of course they will be far poorer than they are under the wicked capitalists and their Tory lap dogs

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You seem fine that we are the least equal, least socially mobile developed nation in europe, that wages for the average person have falled sharper in this decade than at any point since the 1780s, while corporation tax is cut and subsidies paid in huge sums to foreign corporations who pay no tax.

Honestly, are you that pessimistic that you think attempting to get rich people to even pay a small amount more is impossible? 3 times in history when working people pushed for their rights in the face of the rich and won: Corn Laws repealed, welfare state, minimum wage. Each time, the economy boomed afterwards. The narrative that it would collapse is a myth.

“As the Bank of England said, for every 10% growth in immigration there is a 2% reduction in wages. That bears thinking about.”

Boris Johnson, ITV, 9 June 2016"

"The 10% to 2% ratio, described by the Bank of England, does not show the relationship between changes in the immigration rate and UK average wages, as has been claimed.

Their report was much more specific than this.

The ratio of foreign-born workers to UK-workers affects the wages of the lowest paid

The report suggested that an increase in the ratio of foreign-born workers to UK-born workers in lower-paid service occupations caused a small but significant reduction in the average pay for low paid workers in that region.

It found that a 1.88% reduction in pay for semi-skilled and unskilled service workers would be expected to follow, on average, a 10% increase in the proportion of immigrants working in those jobs in a particular region.

Examples of jobs in this category include child minders, cleaners, shop assistants, call centre staff, bar staff and postal workers.

The reduction in average pay for semi-skilled and unskilled service workers is mainly due to a drop in wages for low-paid workers born in the UK. A small part is because immigrants tend to be paid less than native workers, bringing the average down further.

The Bank of England also found that an increase in the ratio of foreign-born to UK-born workers seemed to have an effect on the average UK wage nationally. This effect was much smaller than the effect found when the report focused on particular groups of occupation.

Whether the immigrant workers had come from inside or outside the EU made very little difference.

This is a relatively small effect

Between 2004-2006 and 2012-2014 the ratio of foreign-born to UK-born workers rose by about 8% in low-skilled and semi-skilled service occupations across the UK as a whole. This was the largest change in any of the four occupational groups classified by the report.

So for a low-skilled or semi-skilled occupation paid £8 per hour, this would work out to a drop of between 1 and 2 pence per hour, each year.

Many issues have an affect on the wages of the lowest paid. Academics commonly list global changes in technology and trade, or national differences in education, attitudes to gender, and union activity as having a much more significant effect than having a higher proportion of immigrants in the workforce."

Interesting that the 9 out of 10 of the UK's richest people are not UK citizens (only the 9th richest, the Duke of Westminster is a UK citizen).

Basically, for nearly all of the last forty years the centre-right has held sway here and in Germany and in France has flip-flopped between them and centre-left.

You really have no idea have you who is actually to blame for all the perceived ills that you see? The left have had very little power in that time compared to the right.

Seek and ye shall find. The correct answers.