Will any political party ever take on the triple lock? The answer from Reform’s Robert Jenrick yesterday appeared to be no. 

At a press conference where Jenrick, Reform’s Treasury spokesman, appeared to junk nearly everything Reform had previously said on economic and fiscal policy. He chucked overboard what was in many ways a left-leaning approach to both economic and fiscal policy and adopted a list of proposals that would be right at home in a Tory manifesto. That included committing to keeping the triple lock – which guarantees the state pension rises by the highest of earnings, inflation or a floor of 2.5 per cent. 

Afterwards, however, Reform’s leader Nigel Farage appeared to have a different view on keeping the pensions triple lock in place, saying that the........

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