Baroness Altmann has resigned as minister of state for pensions, suggesting "short-term political considerations, exacerbated by the EU referendum, have inhibited good policy-making".
She has been replaced by MP for Watford Richard Harrington who has been named parliamentary under-secretary of state for pensions in Theresa May's government following Altmann's resignation on Friday. Harrington, elected in May 2010, had been the under-secretary of state for Syrian refugees since September last year but was moved to the Department for Work and Pensions on Sunday (17 July). Altmann, who became pensions minister after she was made a member of the House of Lords following the Conservative victory in last year's general election, said in her resignation letter to the new ...
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