Steve Webb is a minister at the end of his tether

Jack Jones wonders if the Chancellor knocked the wind out of the pensions minister's sails

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Whenever the camera panned to Steve Webb during last week's budget, the pensions minister looked distinctly unhappy.

Whether this was because George Osborne was grabbing the glory for the biggest reform in pensions for a generation, or because he was undermining Webb's own cherished defined ambition programme, is...

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