In the third of a series of Election 2010 interviews, Jenna Towler talks to pensions minister Angela Eagle about Labour's plans for the pensions landscape - should it retain office
Angela Eagle has headed up Labour’s occupational pensions policy for the last nine months. As the general election looms, the potential for change – either in the form of a Tory government minister snaffling her title or the inevitable cabinet reshuffle in the event of a Labour win – at the department for work and pensions could see yet another politician steering the ship. But Eagle remains firmly ‘on message’, never deviating from the plans set in motion by the Turner Commission and put into place by the Labour government. She says she has been wrestling with a whole range of iss...
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