Labour

Legacy Labour proposals for auto-enrolment and NEST will be stripped bare to determine potential cost savings, Lord Freud says.

This week has very publicly exposed, among other things, the extent to which wrangling and short-term deal making are inherent in politics.

Gordon Brown will quit as Labour Party leader before the party conference in September.

Gordon Brown said he accepted Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg will talk to the Tories about forming a Government before the Labour party.

The Liberal Democrats could use a coalition government with the Labour Party to force through "penal" tax policies, a lawyer fears.

Much has been made of the revolving door at the department for work and pension over the past 13 years with its steady stream of secretaries of state and pension ministers.

There were mixed fortunes for the pensions spokespeople of the three main political parties at last night's general election.

The main parties may find it hard to agree on pensions policies including NEST, tax relief, early access to pensions savings and deregulation of DB schemes.

With the date of the election finally announced, Laura Blows summarises the pension policies of the three main political parties

Labour and Liberal Democrat proposals to restrict tax relief on pension contributions have been branded "unfair" by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.