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Bearly Politics

Trading the Triple Lock for a National Care Service

A bold, brave and deeply unpopular choice, and why someone who spent years stuck on discharge calls is cautiously on board.

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Sep 30, 2026
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Yesterday, the unthinkable happened - and I’ll note that I’m talking about this as someone who hasn’t necessarily lived their whole life in the UK, but has lived here for the past decade, one of the first concepts I learned about when I arrived in the UK, politically that is, was the pensions triple lock1.

Introduced under the Cameron government, it guara…

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