It's now almost impossible to work your way to riches, says report into growing wealth gap

Britain's wealth gap is growing and it's now practically impossible for a typical worker to save enough to become rich, according to a report.

Analysis by The Resolution Foundation, a left-leaning think tank, found it would take average earners 52 years to accrue savings that would take them from the middle to the top of wealth distribution.

The total needed would be around £1.3m, and assumes they save almost all of their income.

Wealth gaps are "entrenched", it said, meaning who your parents are - and what assets they may have - is becoming more important to your living standards than how hard you work.

While the UK's wealth has "expanded dramatically over recent decades", it's been mainly fuelled by periods of low interest rates and increases in asset worth - not wage growth or buyin