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Occupational Pensions

I will give way in a minute. If anyone expects the Conservative party to be more helpful to pensioners than we have been, let me read what the shadow Chancellor said at a meeting organised by The Independent at the Conservative party conference:"““There are lots of Conservatives who come up to me and say we’ve really got to put more money into the pensions … the test of whether we are ready for government is whether we can resist those additional?" calls for public expenditure.