HAD the Tories not broken the triple lock on the British state pension, pensioners would have had an increase of £11.42 per week. This would have gone some way to improving the British state pension which is, shamefully, one of the lowest in the developed world.
Unfortunately we can’t expect a callous, hard-headed individual like the Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey to influence the Chancellor Rishi Sunak to restore a Tory manifesto commitment to maintain the triple lock on the state pension.
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Therese Coffey sang I’ve Had The Time of My Life at a karaoke event just hours after the £20 weekly uplift on Universal Credit was ended. She makes the former Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Ian Duncan Smith seem positively benevolent.
Sandy Gordon
Edinburgh
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