Isn’t it better for all parties to say what THEY are going to do and what THEY believe in, rather than just raising silly scare stories for cheap headlines about what another party might do…

I get the politics in an election year but Labour needs to tread carefully when drawing a direct link between NI and the state pension. The £46bn “black hole” in public finances created from abolishing NI, if it emerged, could be plugged from any area of public spending.

State pensions could be in doubt for future generations, expert warns news.sky.com/story/money-la…

What are your policies for managing the UK's long-term retirement savings needs? Rachel Reeves

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?
#TripleLock - it's all your fault Steve Webb

EXCL: The FCA has finally firmed up its reforms to PRIIPS, seen by POLITICOEurope, and here are what the proposals to the cost disclosure framework are looking like thus far...🧵

Why are Labour MPs going all in on this?

What commitment?

What risk to over 60s seeing their state pension delayed.

There’s more than enough to challenge the Tories on without making stuff up.

Well this isn’t going to help with long-term pension policy making. citywire.com/new-model-advi…

Workers support the idea of a pension pot for life; especially true of younger workers. Of course they do, they see it as their money professionalpensions.com/news/4201752/m…

I cycled through here earlier today and had a proper WTF moment

Could you both just stop it with the Triple Lock pledges

BBC Food free online recipes is the best thing about the BBC

Great to have a drink with my fellow London Mayoral candidate Howard Cox

No more Lab/Con failed promises. The smaller political parties are the future!

Our public affairs guru langcatalison writes the #Update this week and it’s all about Financial Conduct Authority’s latest #AI policy. Plus there’s a bonus #langcatfact about the Chair of the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee.

thelangcat.co.uk/the-top-class-…

#ArtificialIntelligence

I'm being sold to on Twitter, by Microsoft, using Hargreaves Lansdown as a case study. The worst of it is, somehow I probably deserve this

In principle it’s fine to put a Union flag on a British made product but no doubt some will just dismiss this as dog-whistle marketing

Very very sad news.
The passing of #FrankField is the end of an era. RIP old friend.

He was a giant amongst politics and the nicest of men. A short thread 1/

No Way Out, Vol 3 in the Brexit quartet, is out on Thurs. Andrew Marr says: 'If you are interested in politics, you have to be interested in this'. Of its proud author he writes: 'What the Roman empire was for Gibbon, Brexit is for the man universally known as Shippers.'…

The piece is so bleak I feel a little bit shattered. I urge everyone to read it.

Gus is right