UK shadow chancellor Michael Portillo has said that an elected Conservative party would scrap the rules that force people to buy an annuity when they retire.
The shadow chancellor said that the Tories would change the current system so that people are only required to buy an annuity sufficient enough to sustain people above the state support threshold, ...
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