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In his morning interview round James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, echoed the No 10 line from yesterday and refused to say that the government remained committed to the triple lock on pensions.
The 2019 Conservative party manifesto said that triple lock would stay and Cleverly told Sky News: “We do take manifesto commitments incredibly seriously, as you know.”
We’ve seen those inflation figures, obviously the chancellor is going to be making a statement to the house in just over a week’s time.
The decisions that he and the Treasury team will be making will be very much informed by those figures.
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