Ben Gray

Because of the triple lock, the state pension is set to rise by roughly £488 next year. Our pensioners absolutely deserve security, and Restore Britain will deliver that, but we also need to be honest about who is now largely funding it. Younger workers are already facing outrageously high taxes, enormous housing costs and the challenge of saving for their own retirement - yet the triple lock can push pensions up faster than prices, leaving a younger generation of workers with an ever-growing burden. It’s just not fair. These are our children and our grandchildren. Personally, I do not believe they should shoulder the costs of our generation’s selfish and destructive approach to the economy - leaving vast national debt as our inheritance is a shameful legacy for us. It just is. When I launched Restore Britain as a party, I said we would take the difficult decisions needed to deliver a better Britain for those who come after us. I meant it. So we will replace the triple lock. Restore Britain will secure the state pension by linking it to CPI, protecting pensioners' purchasing power. No other serious political party has the courage to do this. Restore Britain will not attempt to buy votes today with money tomorrow's workers will have to earn. Young people deserve a fair deal too. Unbelievable for a party leader to say, I know. Our economy is broken, almost beyond repair - everybody is going to have to pay the price to drag our country out of the very deep hole it is currently in. I mean, everybody. That includes replacing the Triple Lock, alongside a vast range of other cuts to the size of the state. Millions of freeloading foreign nationals will be deported, the asylum system abolished, and foreign aid reduced to almost nothing. But we all have to shoulder the burden, sadly. Everybody is going to have to pay to fix the mistakes of my generation.

Since there's quite a lot of talk about small boat crossings today ("20,000 people since the election!") a bit of context might be helpful... First, while the cumulative numbers this year (red line 👇) ARE high, they're not as high as in 2022. So this is not unprecedented.

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Politicians must do all we can to restore public trust in politics after the chaos of the last Conservative government. It is way past time for a proper democratic reform of the House of Lords.

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Q: Chancellor, I’ve got your manifesto here. Where does it say the next Labour government is going to increase spending by £74bn and raise taxes by £40bn because I have looked through it and I can’t find it?