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**Hugh** · Yesterday, 19:49

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Triple lock on pensions is open to debate, says Nigel Farage

The Reform UK leader refuses to commit to keeping the policy if he gets into power, despite Robert Jenrick saying he supports it

Reform UK is not yet committed to keeping the triple lock on pensions if it wins power, Nigel Farage has said, despite the party’s new Treasury spokesman, Robert Jenrick, saying he is a “supporter” of the policy.

Jenrick said he backed the triple lock, which raises pensions payments by the highest of inflation, earnings or 2.5 per cent.

“I’ve always been a supporter of the triple lock. It’s incredibly important to provide dignity and security to older people on fixed incomes in the last decades of their life, particularly at a time like this where there’s such challenging circumstances with the cost of living,” Jenrick said at a press conference in London on Wednesday, his first as the party’s Treasury spokesman.

Shortly afterwards, Farage appeared to question whether the policy would form part of Reform’s election manifesto, saying it was still “open for debate”. The party leader has consistently refused to commit to keeping the pensions triple lock if he got into power.

When asked whether he had changed his mind, he replied: “No, I haven’t changed my mind. It’s open for debate. Everything is open for debate.”