Labour embarks on national 'state pension tour'

The tour comes in the wake of the Conservative party's confirmation it will implement changes to the state pension age outlined in the Cridland report, which will see it rise to 68 between 2037 and 2039. The Department for Work and Pensions said life expectancy had increased from the introduction of the state pensions in 1948, when a retiree could expect to spend 13.5 years in receipt of it, to expecting to live 22.8 years in full receipt of the state pension today. Labour meanwhile has calculated 56,547 under-48 year-olds living in Theresa May's constituency of Maidenhead, 59,290 in ...