Torsten Bell has been appointed to Treasury role after resignation of Tulip Siddiq as City minister

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New UK pensions minister previously called for ‘triple lock’ to be replaced

Torsten Bell once said the guarantee on pension earnings 'needs sorting' while working as a think tank chief

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Triple lock in danger as Starmer appoints minister who wanted to ‘abolish’ it

Torsten Bell proposed removing valuable tax reliefs on retirement savings of higher earners

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Triple lock ‘under threat’ from Labour’s new pensions minister

Torsten Bell, the MP for Swansea East, has replaced Emma Reynolds in the position after her promotion to City Minister, replacing Tulip Siddiq.

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State pensioners face Triple Lock being 'scrapped and replaced' under Labour

The state pension triple lock under Labour's new Pensions Minister who has previously called to "replace" the payment uprate system. Torsten Bell, the MP for Swansea East, has replaced Emma Reynolds in the position after her promotion to City Minister, replacing Tulip Siddiq.Previously head of Labour policy under former leader Ed Miliband, Bell creating a more "sensible mechanism" in lieu of the triple during his tenure as chief executive of The…

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State pension crisis as Labour appoints DWP minster who called for triple lock to be 'replaced'

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Sooner or later a government is going to have to abandon the triple lock, which is like an unexploded bomb.

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Starmer should bite the bullet and scrap the triple lock

Yesterday Torsten Bell’s brother Olaf was confirmed as new director of the No 10 Policy Unit. Now Torsten himself is back in the Treasury thanks to the mini-reshuffle from Tulip Siddiq’s resignation and a nod from Starmer… This is 15 years since Bell was last there as Alistair Darling’s SpAd.[…] Read the rest

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High-Tax Fanatic Torsten Bell Appointed Treasury Minister

Following today’s news of the appointment of Torsten Bell as Pensions Minister, Jon Greer, head of retirement policy at Quilter has shared his reaction to the announcement as follows: “Torsten Bell’s appointment as a joint Parliamentary Secretary in HM Treasury and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Work and Pensions signals Labour’s intention to place pensions policy at the heart of its economic agenda. “Bell’s backgro…

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Torsten Bell appointed as Pensions Minister as the role changes hands again - IFA Magazine

The MP for Swansea West and former boss of the Resolution Foundation replaces Emma Reynolds as pensions minister, as she takes over from Tulip Siddiq as economic secretary to the Treasury

New UK pensions minister previously called for ‘triple lock’ to be replaced

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