The Conservatives insisted on Tuesday that they would “comfortably” find the money to protect “millions of pensioners” from paying more in tax if re-elected as they strove to make up ground on Labour.
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride confirmed that the £2.4 billion campaign promise for an enhanced “triple lock” would be funded through putting the squeeze on tax dodgers – whom Rishi Sunak is also targeting to pay for his plan to force 18-year-olds to do national service.
