Good morning everyone and thank you for having me here today. I am delighted to be at the Resolution Foundation, whose work on the living standards of low to middle-income citizens is both directed at a key question and thoroughly done; and whose influential status is thereby so richly deserved. Christmas time is officially upon us and, with that, the usual feeling of wanting to make sense of the year gone by. It is such a tempting desire that not even an MPC member can resist. For me, it is even more so, given this has been the first year in my new job. Furthermore, I have an extra motivation for a review, since I ... (full story)