It is encouraging to see a growing number of businesses and local authorities adopting the living wage and this week’s piece by Jeremy Warner, assistant editor of the Daily Telegraph, is proof that the movement …

At the mid-way point in the Coalition Government’s five year term, Living Wage Week has shone a welcome light on insufficient wage levels at the bottom of the income scale in the UK. But, as a wealth …

The chief executive of WPP, Sir Martin Sorrell, yesterday suffered significant embarrassment when the company’s remuneration report was rejected by 60% of the company’s investors. This is the latest in a series of widely-reported rebellions.
It would be …

To mark tax freedom day on Tuesday, the Adam Smith Institute called for ”lower taxes… to ease the tax burden on London’s low and middle-income workers…” instead of mandating a “job-killing living wage”.
At first glance, it may seem …

Today’s business press contains worrying signs that Vince Cable’s efforts to rein in executive pay are under attack.
The first is a story in the Financial Times (£), reporting that the Business Secretary is likely to …

The prime minister yesterday became the latest in a long line of politicians and directors to launch an attack on “anti business rhetoric”. David Cameron is right that business certainly can and should be a …

Nick Clegg’s call today to speed up the process of raising the tax threshold to £10,000 will lift one million people out of income tax. Clegg aims to reduce the UK’s excessive levels of income …

That the prime minister had so much to say on the theme of excessive executive remuneration yesterday, both in his Daily Telegraph interview and on the Andrew Marr show, should be welcomed.
Many of Cameron’s proposals …

Local authority policies with regard to their lowest-paid staff are polarising between those who are committing to pay Living Wage and those who are seeking to minimise staff costs in the name of keeping taxes …

It has been widely reported that the latest British Social Attitudes Survey found that although three quarters of the British public think the gap between rich and poor is too wide, only 35% thought the …