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Is Labour the party of the pensioner?

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At PMQs, neither Labour nor the Tories wanted to commit to keeping the state pension triple lock. Have the two parties, awkwardly and unofficially, reached a consensus on dropping the promise?

Max Jeffery speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Heale.

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