Kitty Ussher

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Katharine Anne Ussher, Baroness Ussher (born 18 March 1971) is a British economist, public policy research professional, and politician. She was previously served as a Labour Party MP and Treasury minister, and later as the Chief Executive of the Demos think tank. In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. After training as an economist and working as a macroeconomic forecaster at the Economist Intelligence Unit, she was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Burnley at the 2005 general election, succeeding Peter Pike. Seen as a high flier, she went on to serve as a minister in Gordon Brown's government from 2007 to 2009, mainly at the Treasury, but also at the Department for Work and Pensions, having previously been a Special Advisor at the Department for Trade and Industry. At the time she was the second-youngest government minister, and the youngest woman. Ussher resigned from her ministerial role in 2009 following her involvement in the United Kingdom parliamentary...

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