The policy is unsustainable, say backbenchers. But they also fear it would be ‘electoral suicide’ to try to scrap it

Dan Tomlinson said it was “important we have the triple lock and that we increase spending on pensioners”.

The former prime has warned that there needs to be an ‘honest conversation’ over the way forward for the party before there is a change of prime minister

The policy is unsustainable, say backbenchers. But they also fear it would be ‘electoral suicide’ to try to scrap it