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With the baton of pensions policy changing hands for the fifteenth time since Labour came to power in 1997, Jenna Towler explores the consequences of having so many ministers

The baton of pensions policy has once again been handed from one set of ministers to the next, marking the fifteenth such change at the top of the department for work and pensions in 12 years. Form...

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