Burnham’s First PMQs Live: UK Can’t Afford Pensions Triple Lock, PM Warned

Triple lock under threat as UK bond rout deepens

State pension alert: Andy Burnham ally tells PM to scrap triple lock in spending cut overhaul

One of Prime Minister Andy Burnham's own allies has urged the Prime Minister to abolish the state pension triple lock as a response to soaring Government borrowing costs.Lord Jim O'Neill, who previously served as an adviser to Mr Burnham, insisted the new PM must rein in public expenditure to rebuild investor confidence.Speaking to journalists, Lord O'Neill said: "It's going to force his own political party and hopefully the whole Whitehall syst…

Burnham’s first PMQs live: UK can’t afford pensions triple lock, PM warned

The prime minister has also been warned he will need to hike taxes for middle earners to fund defence spending

Andy Burnham urged to 'get real' about cost of keeping state pension triple lock

A close ally of Andy Burnham has warned about the cost of maintaining the state pension triple lock - and a jump in government borrowing costs pile on the

The triple lock can't last forever. Here's what can replace it

Paul Johnson, one of the UK's most respected economists, warns that without change, the state pension policy would end up consuming the British economy

We are all Just Stop Oil now: Mass arrest outside Burnham’s first PMQs – Just Stop Oil

PICTURES AND VIDEOS Police are currently arresting over 60 Just Stop Oil supporters outside Parliament, on the same day the UN has reported that the globe is on track for at least 2°C warming in our lifetime. The action takers today are demanding that the UK government stop approving all further oil and gas developments, […]