Rishi Sunak has given a hint that the government will temporarily break the pension triple lock this year in order to prevent the Treasury being landed with a £3bn uprating bill. The chancellor said there was a need to be fair to taxpayers as well as pensioners in light of a forecast that a post-lockdown surge in pay growth would result in the state pension going up by 8% next April

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