Chancellor limbers up for bitter row over pension triple lock | Nils Pratley
Rishi Sunak says nothing is decided yet, but logic dictates it should be dropped this year
Abandoning the pension triple lock on state pensions, even for a single year, would guarantee a bitter row, so one can understand why the chancellor limbered up for the task with a round of hints and equivocation. Nothing is decided and we must wait for the data, said Rishi Sunak, giving himself a get-out in case the politics of the exercise turns ugly.
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