Flynn, for the Scots Nats, dared to speak without notes: an example too rarely followed by other MPs.
The Office for Budget Responsibility already predicts expenditure on the state pension and other pensioner benefits are set to rise from 5.6 per cent of GDP in the current decade to 9.6 per cent by 2071.
The Cameron Government showed that benefits cuts are acceptable, even popular, when they are perceived as fair.
What’s missing are the long-term reforms that would overcome resistance by the pension sector. The question is whether the Government will use the limited time remaining in the Parliament to fix these problems.
Although politicians like to elide them, long-term thinking and putting difficult things off until tomorrow are not the same thing.
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This imbalance in job security, income and pension provision is a glaring reality that too often goes unmentioned, and should be a priority and powerful mobilising cause for the Conservative Party.
My argument is simply one of affordability (including, by the way, by dropping the triple lock) if our public finances are going to be sustainable.
Tax incentives are all well and good, but the Government also needs to tackle the discrimination faced by too many older people in the workplace.
A hypothetical, perfectly average 58-year-old could have increased their wealth by 40 per cent between 2017 and 2022, and paid very little tax, all by following the rules.
Every worker should have a pot-for-life, into which all their employers over their working life are obliged to pay.
The campaign simply asks for fair compensation for the Department for Work and Pensions’ failure to inform them of this massive change to their state pension arrangements.