'We need wise heads' - AIFA's Cummings on the new Govt

Restoring faith in retirement saving and cutting the protection gap...the new Government has a busy time ahead

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Restoring faith in saving for retirement and cutting the protection gap...the new Government has a busy time ahead, says AIFA director general Chris Cummings.

In that joyous "Haynes Manual" of how government really works: "Yes Minister", Sir Humphrey Appleby, Jim Hacker's Permanent Secretary famously remarked: "A career in politics is no preparation for Government". Today will see the appointment to ministries of state some politicians who have not grasped the levers of power before. Their experience will be of running their own business, working for others, or of working only in the political world. Today they will become responsible for departments where spending may run into billions and which employ tens of thousands of people - in A...

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