Ministers feared a 1980 plan to cut state pension by 3% would cause riots, papers released today by the National Archives reveal.
An article in today's Guardian reported a plan by Margaret Thatcher's first chancellor, Geoffrey Howe, to cut the value of the state pension in autumn 1980 triggered a secret cabinet revolt with wa...
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