Tories won't unpick triple lock in hung parliament

Breaks on major reform

Hannah Godfrey
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Following the surprise general election result, Professional Adviser asked pensions and savings experts to talk through their expectations and concerns for a range of financial policies and manifesto pledges.

The Conservative party's failure to win an overall majority in the 8 June election - a result few commentators had predicted - is likely to throw the UK into a fresh period of political, legislative and market uncertainty. With talk currently of the Tories forming an informal coalition with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), it cannot simply be assumed the previous administration's policies and manifesto pledges will continued as originally intended. Tom Selby: What the election result means for UK savings policy Aegon head of pensions Kate Smith expressed concern ...

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