'You turn if you want to': Seven notable government policy U-turns

LISA and pensions dashboard under threat

Victoria McKeever
clock • 3 min read

As news recently surfaced that the Lifetime ISA and pensions dashboard may be the latest government policies to get the axe, PA decided to look back at a selection of key policy changes from the past year…

The financial services industry is no stranger to government backtracking on policy, particularly in the past year as political shake-up seems to be the order of the day as the fallout from Brexit continues.   Amid the chaos, advisers could be forgiven for losing track of which policy was now on the chopping block. We thought this summary of seven key policy U-turns might serve as a handy reminder… Lifetime ISA Last week, the Treasury Committee called on the government to abolish the Lifetime ISA (LISA) just 16 months after it was first made available. In a report, the committ...

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