🧓💷 “The triple-lock pension protection will remain in place,” –Farage declares

Reform had previously left the door open to scrapping the triple lock – but today made a “final” choice to keep it.

Mr Farage said: “When I said the jury’s out on the triple lock and what we would decide to do on this and with many other issues too, if I could just interpret that into simple English, what I meant was the jury’s out. Not that I’d made my mind up either way.

“And we have discussed it, and we have debated it, and we’ve decided it’s going to stay.”

The Reform chief argued that many silver haired Brits who got their pensions before 2016 are “really pretty disadvantaged by the current system”.

He added that OAPs are among those who “have actually worked and paid into the system”.

Pushed on the affordability of the triple lock, Mr Farage said that within two weeks he will announce “the biggest cuts to the benefits bill ever seen in the history of this country“.

Today Reform Treasury Spokesperson, Robert Jenrick, revealed his party would consider whether new civil servants should continue being bestowed with “gold-plated” pensions schemes.

Whitehall pensions are generous retirement schemes funded largely by taxpayers, where staff receive a guaranteed income for life based on their salary and years of service rather than investment performance.

He said: “Such schemes were phased out in the private sector decades ago. They represent the Government’s second largest financial liability.

“The old parties almost never discuss them.

“But if we care about balancing the books fairly, we can’t keep ducking this issue.”