Ex-Demos leader Ussher to set up 'social enterprise' in Brixton

Kitty Ussher

The ex-Labour Treasury minister this week ceased to lead Demos after a year in the job. She told Public Affairs News: “I am looking forward to finishing projects on the public’s perceptions of ‘good growth’ in economic policy, which will be launched in November with [Conservative minister] Oliver Letwin, and a project on risk in the creative industries, to be launched in October with [Conservative minister] Ed Vaizey. After that I’m hoping to activate a long-term plan to set up a social enterprise in Brixton.”
Separately, the head of Demos’s public interest programme, Dan Leighton, has become an aide to Labour peer and academic Lord (Maurice) Glasman, the figurehead of the ‘Blue Labour’ movement that has caused a bit of stir recently.
As the September edition of Public Affairs News went to press, Demos was on the cusp of revealing Ussher’s successor.

1st September 2011 by Ian Hall