Comments by the head of the government's pensions commission to a Sunday paper may have shaken the foundation on which the government has pinned its hopes to solving the UK pension crisis, albeit gently.
Alasdair Buchanan, a spokesman for Scottish Life says he is very surprised by Adair Turner's remarks, calling them ‘political dynamite.’ Buchanan says: “Turner has been very sure-footed up until now and so it is really odd that he's gone so wildly off track with this.” Steve Bee, head of pensions strategy at Scottish Life, says that even though Blunkett has reportedly scrapped Turner’s idea, ‘it’s bound to worry people.’ On his Beehive website , Bee says: “My worry is that things will all get a bit on the strange side as the debate progresses and that we’ll end up with some kind ...
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