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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Larry Elliott

Starmer ‘should bring in workplace pension for the self-employed’

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The report also calls for new pension credits for carers, to reduce the ‘gender pensions gap’. Photograph: Photofusion/Rex

Sir Keir Starmer should promise that a future Labour government would introduce a new workplace pension for self-employed workers and more generous retirement provision for the low paid, a leading left-of-centre thinktank has said.

Calling for the biggest shake-up of the pensions’ system in two decades, the Fabian Society said Labour needed to copy the radical approach of the Turner Commission two decades ago, which encouraged saving through opt-out schemes.

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