GE2019: Labour and Lib Dems reveal pension and tax policies

With the electorate set to go to the polls in three weeks' time, Professional Adviser looked at both Labour and the Liberal Democrat manifestos - the Conservative manifesto is yet to be released - to uncover where the two parties stand on pensions and taxation. Triple lock The Liberal Democrats have pledged to maintain the triple lock - a policy that ensures the basic state pension will rise in line with the highest of wages, Consumer Prices Index inflation, or 2.5%. AJ Bell senior analyst Tom Selby described this as "an easy political win" from a party keen to shore up the ‘grey-vote'...