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Doubts grow over ‘totemic' cash pledge to pensioners Baroness Altmann continues the high profile she has maintained in the weeks since she resigned as pensions minister. Following her column in the Sunday Times, which we featured in this space last week, she is now the subject of a chunky interview in The Observer, in which she argues the so-called ‘triple-lock' protection for state pensions should be dropped to save billions of pounds for better causes. The triple-lock, which has ensured pensions have risen every year since 2010 by the higher out of the rate of inflation, average earn...