Farage’s Reform UK Vows to Keep Expensive Pensions ‘Triple Lock’

Nigel Farage during a news conference in London, April 2. 

Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg

Nigel Farage has committed to keeping Britain’s controversial “triple lock” on pensions, in a boost for a policy that economists often put at the center of Britain’s fiscal problems.

Reform UK, Farage’s poll-leading party, said Thursday that if it won a general election it would ensure the state pension rises each year by the highest of inflation, average wage hikes or 2.5%.