Labour must keep the triple lock in place to protect older people struggling to get by, say pensioners, as a growing chorus of MPs push to scrap the mechanism for hiking state pension payments.
The triple lock means the state pension rises every year with inflation, average earnings growth or 2.5 per cent – whichever is highest.
Labour leadership hopeful and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham told The i Paper that he would maintain the triple lock for the rest of this Parliament, saying it would be “very damaging” to scrap the party’s manifesto promise to keep the mechanism.
Backbenchers pushing to end the triple lock have called it unaffordable, with one MP saying the party need not be “so afraid” of older voters.
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