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Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves owe the nation's pensioners an apology

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves owe the nation's pensioners an apology

Despite today's humiliating climbdown, a record for a new government, this rushed reversal raises as many questions as it answers.

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