MPs have been asked not to make the elderly choose between heating and eating by suspending the pensions triple lock in a Commons vote. The mechanism ensures the state pension increases by inflation earnings or 2.5 per cent, whichever is highest, but the Chancellor wants to delay the earnings link for a year because lastContinue reading “Don’t Make Elderly People Choose Between Heating And Eating”
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Put The House Of Lords In The Bin!
The House of Lords should be abolished and put in the recycle bin, an MP has asserted, as tension grows on the upper chamber of the UK parliament. And just days after the Lords tossed a spanner in the works by thwarting the International Market Bill, calls are rising for the chamber to be jettisoned.Continue reading “Put The House Of Lords In The Bin!”
