Trade Association Update: October 2021

The topic of rising wages is certainly something that appeals to leading politicians at both ends of the political spectrum, who have been using their party conferences to bang the drum for evolving the UK into a high-wage society.

That is an idea we can all get on board with. However, to deliver it, we need to get the sequencing right. A high wage economy must be the destination of the UK’s post-pandemic recovery, not the starting point. Simply raising wages to comb