Badenoch Blunder as Tories Open Door to Scrapping Pension Triple Lock <\/p>\n
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Co-conspirators may remember Badenoch\u2019s suggestion on LBC back in January\u00a0that the state pension may be means-tested and the triple lock scrapped. It caused a row and had to be officially denied by LOTO\u2019s spokesman: the party had \u201calways protected the triple lock\u201d and Labour was \u201cskewing her words for political gain.\u201d Well, she\u2019s done it again\u2026<\/p>\n
Badenoch was on LBC again last night where Iain Dale asked if the Tories were committed to the triple lock. She said:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSo it has always been Conservative policy to have the triple lock. This was our policy over 14 years. I have not changed that. When we change policy, I have a big speech and, you know, like the one I did on net zero, and we announce it. Now we have to look across the board at so many things \u2013 taxes, what\u2019s going to happen with pensions, pension legislation, so let\u2019s do the detailed work on that and then say what the policy is going to be. But as of now, no, there\u2019s no change to the triple lock.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Labour obviously jumped on it and issued a release saying \u201cBadenoch couldn\u2019t be clearer: under her Conservative Party, the door is open when it comes to cutting the state pension.\u201d Two days before the local elections, where the majority of voters will be pensioners, it seems bold\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Badenoch Blunder as Tories Open Door to Scrapping Pension Triple Lock mdi-fullscreen Co-conspirators may remember Badenoch\u2019s suggestion on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,2499,1787,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-60116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-triple-lock","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114421094582585180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}