Kitty Ussher Articles

How Labour should respond to the budget’s pensions shake-up Labour and the Tories share a perverse incentive to talk down the economy just at the time that economic growth begins to soar. George Osborne and David Cameron, acutely aware that their strongest trait in...

London can afford a higher minimum wage There is something funny going on at the bottom of the pay distribution. Fifteen years ago the pay of the bottom 10 per cent was over a quarter higher in London than the UK average, but by 2012 that differential has almost...

I have a lot of respect for David Sainsbury, gained from our time working together a decade ago at the Department for Trade and Industry, and I have also benefitted from a number of campaigns and organisations he has funded. So it was with some trepidation that I...

The chancellor is probably sighing with relief that, a mere week after the event, his budget does not appear to have unravelled. Indeed, it seems to have ticked all the relevant boxes: a few giveaways to get some headlines paid for by savings achieved through...