Rise in self-employment threatens to undermine AE progress

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The growing number of workers who are self-employed could hamper attempts to get more people saving into a pension scheme, according to a think tank.

The number of self-employment has grown by 650,000 since 2008 to 4.5m, with one in seven UK workers now self-employed, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation. But the report - Just t...

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