Three policy questions Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak must answer
The final two candidates for prime minister have some fundamental decisions to make over the economy. …
For a few months last year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s key message was that Britain deserved a pay rise. “Wage growth” would be the key measure of the success of his “levelling up” mission, he said. But very soon after, Mr Sunak’s former department, the Treasury, clarified that wage rises would have to be justified by an increase in productivity.