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Who is really in Control? Politics, economic security, and fairness: Meet the Leaders with Claire Ainsley and Vicky Pryce
Webinar date: Tuesday 1st December, 6.00pm
From the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to Keir Starmer’s leadership team, Claire Ainsley has spent her career where policy meets the lives of working people. Please register below to join Claire, author of the newly published 'Control: How we lost it and how to take it back', and Vicky Pryce, Chair of Radix Big Tent, for another interactive Radix Big Tent Meet the Leaders webinar at 6.00pm on Tuesday 1st December.
Across western democracies, many people feel they have lost control over the things that matter most: politics, economic security and fairness. In 'Control', Claire argues that this loss of agency is the defining challenge of our time. Drawing on psychology, political strategy and her own experience of policymaking in Westminster, she sets out how individuals and communities might take it back.
Join Claire and Vicky as they ask what it would take to rebuild trust in democratic politics.
Claire Ainsley
Claire Ainsley is a UK-based political writer and practitioner. Following the publication of her first book, The New Working Class: How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes, she joined Keir Starmer’s leadership team as executive director of policy for the Labour Party in opposition, a role she held from April 2020 to December 2022. Prior to this, she was executive director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
She is currently director of the Project on Centre-Left Renewal at the Progressive Policy Institute, Washington DC, where she works to promote international dialogue on responses to populism and political change. Ainsley writes and speaks widely on politics, economics and strategy, with a particular focus on working-class experience and political renewal.
Vicky Pryce
Vicky Pryce is the Chair of Radix Big Tent and a leading economist, whose career includes being Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and Chief Economist and Partner at KPMG. She is currently Chief Economic Adviser and board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research. Vicky is also Chair of the Economic Advisory Council for the British Chambers of Commerce and a visiting Professor at King’s College, London and Birmingham City University. In addition, she is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on Corporate Social Responsibility.
