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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Harry Taylor

Government’s cost-of-living champion urges Labour to cut pensions triple lock

The Labour peer, left, was appointed to his position earlier this year (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Government’s cost-of-living champion has called for Labour to cut the triple lock on pensions.

Lord Walker of Broxton, who is executive chairman of Iceland supermarket, told a debate on youth unemployment that the state pension policy was unaffordable and decried inaction by successive governments on the issue.

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