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Posts Tagged: Pensions

Julian Knight: Companies must be held to their pension commitments

There are better ways to close the deficits in workplace schemes than shifting the burden to the state and giving employers an unfair advantage.

By Julian Knight MP | 20 November 2016 | 7 comments

Howard Flight: How our pension fund deficits are hugely exaggerated – and what to do about it

The present accounting rate is wrong, and the Government should intervene if necessary to ensure that it is put right.

By Lord Flight | 7 November 2016 | 15 comments

James Cartlidge: The triple lock. The NHS. The aid budget. If there’s to be a snap election, we’ll need a new manifesto

And on Brexit, as one who campaigned for In, I say we should get on with it, and avoid the one outcome that is infinitely less preferable to Leave or Remain: limbo.

By James Cartlidge MP | 6 November 2016 | 94 comments

Bob Blackman: The Government must look again at Equitable Life compensation

Our failure to fully reimburse policyholders for their losses is undermining faith in our pensions and regulation system.

By Bob Blackman MP | 20 October 2016 | 21 comments

Alex Morton: A message to the Prime Minister – we still need a smaller state.

What stands in the way of the homes, jobs and savings proclaimed on the masthead of this site is not a state that’s too liberal, but one that’s not liberal enough.

By Alex Morton | 19 October 2016 | 40 comments

Jonathan Isaby: Introducing Brexit Central

A new project to hold the Government to account in honouring its pledge that “Brexit means Brexit”.

By Jonathan Isaby | 19 August 2016 | 96 comments

Rebalancing the economy requires a new monetary policy

Both consumer price inflation and higher interest rates are needed.

By Alex Morton | 12 August 2016 | 42 comments

Andrew Laird: May, mutuals – and a public service market that works for everyone

These organisations have that strong public service ethos – but also employ the entrepreneurialism and commercial discipline of the private sector.

By Andrew Laird | 5 August 2016 | 2 comments

If leaving the EU would really be so ruinous, why did Cameron threaten to do so only recently?

Either, first, he wasn’t quite telling the truth. Or, second, he was willing to wreak the very damage on pensioners’ incomes of which he now warns.

By Paul Goodman | 12 June 2016 | 213 comments

Roger Gale: Our party must honour its commitment on frozen pensions

If in retirement, having paid their dues, they wish to join friends or family in another country, why should they not be able to take their pensions with them?

By Sir Roger Gale MP | 22 May 2016 | 38 comments

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The Social Justice Queen’s Speech we need – but won’t (and can’t) get

The clamour about last week’s elections and June’s EU referendum is obscuring the deep problems that the Government and the country face.

By Paul Goodman | 8 May 2016 | 20 comments

David Willetts: Delivering justice for younger people is a great Conservative mission for our time

I am an optimist: I believe that we respond more immediately and sympathetically to appeals to the needs of future generation than almost any other political argument

By David Willetts | 8 May 2016 | 42 comments

The PIP row and IDS’s resignation. Almost two out of three party member respondents to our survey blame Osborne.

About one in six say that the former Work and Pensions Secretary is more at fault.

By Paul Goodman | 3 April 2016 | 29 comments

George Osborne: Four radical reforms which show what this modern, compassionate Conservative Government is all about

The New National Living Wage comes into effect today. And over the next seven days, we will deliver tax cuts, help for savers and the single-tier state pension.

By George Osborne MP | 1 April 2016 | 101 comments

Howard Flight: We simply cannot afford to carry on protecting spending on welfare, the NHS and schools

The Budget ducked the hard choices that need to be made.

By Lord Flight | 28 March 2016 | 55 comments

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