Editorial blog: pensions and Purnell

How wrong could I be? Barely have the MPs gone on their hols than the Public Administration and Treasury Select Committee start churning out pension reports, the DWP starts publishing research into personal accounts and the HMRC issues amendments and clarification to A-Day legislation closing unseen loopholes. Doesn’t anybody in pensions take time off? And on top of this James Purnell, the pensions minister is not only writing his own personal blog and travelling round the country on his ‘secret summit’ tour, but is also finding the time to slip in the odd interview divulging the late...