Chancellor Gordon Brown's grip on UK economic policy is to be destroyed by the appointment of arch-Blairite Alan Milburn to head a new cabinet committee challenging for control over issues such as pensions and savings policies, reports The Scotsman.
Milburn is expected to use the post to push for a “ownership society”, whereby long-term savings are encouraged to own assets, including houses and investments “including pensions”, the paper writes. And, while work and pensions secretary Alan Johnson and his deputy pensions minister Malcolm Wickes are expected to have seats on the committee, Brown is not, instead represented by his deputy Paul Boeteng. Britons would work less, but not for less money a poll published in today’s The Times – suggesting the government is correct to encourage people to work harder to save more for their p...
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