Triple-lock latest: Exactly what Andy Burnham has said about State Pension

Andy Burnham used his first Labour Party conference speech as Prime Minister to outline proposals aimed at reshaping UK domestic policy, including a change to the state pension “triple lock.” He said he wants to end the current mechanism that increases payments in line with the highest of inflation, earnings or 2.5%, freeing cash to build an NHS-style care service in England. Burnham also pledged changes to the first-past-the-post electoral system and set out potential options for a “long-term relationship” with the European Union, with choices to be discussed around a major UK-EU summit later this year. Speaking in Liverpool shortly after his father Roy’s death, he contrasted his vision of “the common good” with policies he linked to Thatcher-era privatization, deregulation and austerity.