i has learned the Liberal Democrats are planning to capitalise by making pensions 'a campaign defining issue the Conservatives will not recover from'
are planning to capitalise on an issue they think they can use to make big inroads into the “Blue Wall”.– which sees the state pension rise in line with inflation or wage growth.
Analysis suggests there are scores of Tory seats potentially at risk where the size of the party’s majority is smaller than the number of pensioners, many of them in the Conservatives southern “Blue Wall” heartlands. The 20 constituencies in the graphic below are among those that the figures suggest are most vulnerable.
The Liberal Democrats believe that any Tory u-turn on the state pension triple lock will present them with a huge electoral opportunity.: “Taking money off pensioners is impossible to imagine. The state pension has never gone up by less than inflation in its history, millions rely solely on the state pension – and the idea that you can have it go down is impossible to do.
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