Losing Timms in reshuffle a 'tragic loss'

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LOSING Stephen Timms as pensions reform minister is a "tragic loss", Simplification Report author Alan Pickering says.

Timms – who began his second spell at the department for work and pensions 12 months ago – was promoted to chief secretary to the Treasury in prime minister Tony Blair’s Cabi-net reshuffle in the w...

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