At Labour conference in 1949, the party’s firebrand Health Minister Nye Bevan proudly informed delegates in Blackpool that ‘the language of priorities is the religion of socialism’.
Fast forward 77 years and Andy Burnham’s conference speech in Liverpool yesterday will have had the great hero of the Left spinning in his grave.
By indicating plans to abolish the pensions triple lock – the mechanism which guarantees that the state pension rises by inflation, average earnings or 2.5 per cent – from 2030, this Labour government has demonstrated a truly warped set of priorities.
Faced with the enormous savings required to fund his universal
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