UK. Silence on pensions in the Queen’s Speech was a big mistake – Theresa May should have stuck to her instincts
Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech was a pot-holed, broken reflection of the manifesto the Conservative Party stood on just two weeks ago. Thankfully a number of the manifesto’s egregious policies didn’t make the Queen’s final pages, but, more problematically, a number of its good ones also felt the executioner’s touch. None more so than the brave changes Theresa May had proposed on pensioner benefits and care.
Proposals to means-test the universal winter fuel payment, scrap the triple lock on pensions, and the radical ask for pensioners to contribute more of their assets towards social care have all been quietly shuffled off the government’s agenda.
Arguably this is a politically astute move in the short-term – as with most proposals to cut benefits, they proved deeply unpopular and Theresa May was forced into an embarrassing u-turn on her social care proposals mid-campaign.
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