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Why the state pension triple lock is a political headache for Starmer and Farage, in charts

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/31/public-misled-value-university-degree-statistics-debt-loans/

https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/money/article/is-labour-right-to-u-turn-on-the-winter-fuel-allowance-vpb8jcvqw

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/punitive-hidden-tax-killing-ambition/

‘Time for radical thinking’: What’s the bigger picture behind Reeves’ dramatic benefit cuts?

https://www.ftadviser.com/intergenerational-planning/2025/4/2/huge-intergenerational-unfairness-issue-in-pensions/

“Liz Emerson, co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation told The i Paper: “Tilting the playing field once again away from young people by forcing them to save in ways that will supposedly encourage a domestic growth agenda is yet an intergenerational unfairness in action. “Younger savers need easily accessible shorter-term savings vehicles for deposits on home purchases,… Read more »

“But Liz Emerson, CEO of the Intergenerational Foundation, said the current system is “failing students, graduates, taxpayers and the wider economy”. She said: “The Government should remove these sky-high interest rates and lower the 9 per cent repayment rate. Doing so would put wage back into the pockets of graduates and stimulate the wider economy… Read more »