Comment: Hutton report fails first political hurdle

Michael Bow talks political cherry picking

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Local government officials will welcome news that talks between unions and the Treasury over reforms to the Local Government Pension Scheme will follow a separate path.

If the LGPS had followed the trajectory predicted by some and collapsed due to contribution-driven mass opt-outs, its epitaph would have been simple: we were different. That the Treasury has rea...

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