Ireland may be caught between the European continent and the United States in military powerplays, civil servants have warned ...

A former minister who helped to create the state pension triple lock has warned it will not exist in a generation’s time. Sir Steve Webb – who served as pensions minister during the coalition ...

Former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Steve Webb served as pensions minister in the coalition government, thinks there is still a ...

The Conservative leader said that while in government the party had supported the system but that ‘we need to make sure we ...

Sir Steve Webb MP, who signed off on the pensions triple lock, thinks there is not a case for keeping the measure “indefinitely”. The minister who first signed off on the pensions triple ...

The triple lock – the mechanism by which the state pension is increased by the highest of average earnings, inflation or 2.5 per cent – has become one of the most sacred of political cows ...

The Tory leader insisted that ‘means-testing is something which we don’t do properly’ after being pressed on her plans for ...

The pension triple-lock should be means tested to make sure the country is “growing” Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said, sparking criticism from Labour opponents. Speaking on LBC ...

Labour has refused to rule out means-testing the pension triple lock following a row with Kemi Badenoch over the state pension. Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman insisted on Friday that the Prime ...