Voters clearly want it – and the recent past suggests he’s a more credible agent of it than Sir Keir.
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.
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.
This move will not only make people richer but will also stimulate economic growth, as many such ISAs are invested into UK stocks and shares.