Labour Party pension scheme switches to CPI

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The Labour Party has switched to using the Consumer Prices Index for uprating its own pension scheme despite repeatedly attacking the government for making the change possible.

The party's financial statement for 2010 revealed £4.2m had been cut from the Labour Superannuation Society's deficit by the decision to use CPI instead of the Retail Prices Index which is generall...

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