Claire Ainsley is the Director of the Project on Center-Left Renewal at the Progressive Policy Institute. Claire joined PPI in 2023. She served as Executive Director for Policy for Opposition Leader Keir Starmer from 2020-2022. Claire also served as the Executive Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, where she led JRF’s work on the social and political attitudes of people with low incomes. She is the author of “The New Working Class: How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes,” which was published in May 2018.