麻豆社

Last year the government asked Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts and former policy chief for Tony Blair to carry out a review of modern employment practices.

Matthew Taylor told Martha Kearney that the tax rise announced in the budget yesterday, to increase National Insurance contributions for some self-employed, was progressive and "economically rational".

Mr Taylor said that had this change not been made, there would have been a further increase in the "differential" between the self-employed and the employed.

(Photo: Matthew Taylor. Credit: 麻豆社).