Comment: Tory pledges will not save DB in current form

Jonathan Stapleton
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Last week, I bemoaned that, while successive governments had regulated defined benefit schemes out of existence, there had never been an investigation into how all this regulation came about and how such mistakes could be avoided in the future.

This week, and, I am sure, completely unrelated to my comment, Conservative work and pensions spokeswoman Theresa May began to look at what went wrong and how we can learn from past mistakes. Sh...

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