Hi ,

We know inequality is a crisis. The impacts are clearly visible all around us, and decades of evidence have shown how deep the crisis goes. It's easy to feel powerless to stop it – but we aren't. We're in this crisis thanks to decades of political choices by those in power, something that's deeply frustrating, but also shows how we could choose to start working towards a better society.

We're up against entrenched wealth and power, and that's not easy to overturn, but movements have won against them before and can win again. Certainly, the news over the last few weeks has made it easy to feel hopeless, but even now crucial fights are being won all over the UK and world by organised communities, from renters and young people to the movement for an international tax on the ultra-rich.

This was the message we took into parliament last week with a drop-in session hosted by the Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP and Professors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, who presented their 15-year update to The Spirit Level. We met dozens of MPs, Lords, and policy-makers from across the UK's political parties to talk not just about the impact of the inequality crisis on our country and their constituencies, but about hope for a more equal society.

What would you do with estates like the Duchy of Lancaster? You said:

• "Make them state-owned. Give the parts used by public bodies (like the NHS, for example) to those bodies so they're not wasting public funds paying rent or having to lease the land; turn the green spaces over to public parks; give any parts that are used for domestic housing over to the appropriate councils to add to their housing stock."
  
  
• "Keep them, all part of our heritage. But they should pay more tax on their income."
  
  

• "Break it up and use the land for local people. These people have sponged off the working people of this country for too long; they should be made to pay enormous reparations for everything they have sucked into their enormous wealth. Like the royal parasites, they have done absolutely nothing worthwhile, they just live off the fat of the land. Take it away from them and make them work, for a change. Make them pay rent or a mortgage for a home, like the rest of us."
  
  

• "Devolve all commercial activity to non-profit trusts, and vastly expand common land."
  
  

• "Fund reparation for slavery - also using money from others who profited.Get the NHS back on its feet and improved. Support and promote green industries in place."
  
  

• "Return the estates to the country to be run as cooperatives for the good of the country. Profits go to the country to help schools, NHS, green energy, services eg care etc."