Lucy Burton

Lucy Burton is the Employment Editor and Columnist at The Telegraph, where she has worked for over five years. Previously serving as the publication's Banking Editor and Financial Services Editor, she has built a career focused on business and employment issues. Before joining The Telegraph, Burton spent over two years as an investment banking reporter at Financial News and held a senior reporter role at The Lawyer. Her work frequently examines workforce dynamics, labor rights, and economic policies, with notable coverage of union strikes, government legislation impacting workers, and debates around diversity initiatives in corporate Britain. She has reported extensively on the intersection of politics and employment, including analyses of Brexit's labor market impacts and critiques of workplace diversity regulations.