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Workers and pension campaigners to expose PM’s ‘not-so-secret plan to attack’ state pensions

WORKERS and pensions campaigners will join forces today to expose Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s “not-so-secret plan to attack” state pensions.

Activists from the Unite union with gather with National Pensioners Convention (NPC) members at the latter organisation’s annual meet-up in Blackpool to condemn government plans to bring forward a rise in the state pension age to 68.

Behind in the opinon polls, Mr Sunak’s administration recently announced that its decision on when to enact the change had been postponed until after the next general election, due next year. 

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