Philippa Stroud was appointed chair of the Low Pay Commission, a body reporting to Kemi Badenoch’s Department of Business and Trade, on 30 January. The government-appointed role pays £530 per day for three days of work per month (£19,114 per year).
The Conservative peer is the CEO of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), a new pressure group that shares its funders with GB News and is linked to some of the world’s most prominent climate crisis deniers, including psychologist Jordan Peterson.
Stroud has been described by The Telegraph as “the most powerful right-winger you’ve never heard of”.
“Low pay advisor” = what can be done to keep pay low thus ensuring greedy bosses their bonuses and perks.