Campaigner slams Webb over BoE indexation 'spin'

Jenna Towler
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Government assertions that the indexation switch from RPI to CPI was based on Bank of England recommendations are political spin, a former BA trustee says.

Mike Post  who was the first of three BA trustees to quit over the Airways Pension Scheme’s move to the lower consumer prices, rather than retail prices inflation – has been told by the Bank of Eng...

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