Tom Clark was appointed to the Social Security Committee in 2025.
Tom is a journalist, with a special interest in poverty, inequality and social security. He is a Contributing Editor at Prospect, a magazine he previously ran, and Principal Editor at the Resolution Foundation, where he helped distil over 80 papers into the 2023 report Ending Stagnation.
Tom has previously worked at the Guardian, eventually becoming its chief leader writer, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and in two Whitehall departments. He has written and edited books, including Broke: Fixing Britain’s Poverty Crisis.
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