UK - The UK government is looking into scrapping the compulsory retirement age, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said.
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One can only imagine how long Gordon Brown would have been asleep by the time William Gladstone's Budget speech in 1853 finished.
Alistair Darling's Budget speech is still some hours away and - despite much industry speculation - we still have little idea as to what he will propose with regards to pensions.