Wednesday May 20, 2026

Earning it back

Are higher living standards the key to electoral success?

Both the Government and the opposition are scrambling for new policies and messages to win back unconvinced voters. Is this new political landscape ultimately shaped by the lack of growth in household incomes? How much of the remainder of this Parliament ought to be focused on living standards? And what options really are there – whoever is sitting in Number 10 – to get incomes on an upward trajectory after two difficult decades?

Ruth Curtice – Chief Executive Resolution Foundation (Host)
Jane Green - Professor of Political Science and British Politics
Heather Stewart – Economics editor at the Guardian

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