Pensioner-dependent Tories have set the UK on the road to ruin

Mel Stride said it was ‘appropriate’ that any consideration of changing the pension age be delayed for two years – that is, until after the general election. Photograph: Thomas Krych/Shutterstock

There is an election coming, so reforms that harm the finances of older voters are off the table.

The over-50s dominate participation in local polls even more than they do in general elections, so it was little wonder that a proposal to bring forward the date when the state pension age starts to rise to 68 – adversely affecting millions of people born in the 1970s – was considered toxic by the government and kicked into touch at the end of last month.