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RISHI SUNAK could be out to scrap the state pension, the Communist challenger taking on his predecessor Liz Truss warned today.
Speaking in Thetford as the Tories made further National Insurance cuts the centrepiece of their election manifesto, Lorraine Douglas called on voters to “remember what National Insurance is for — the state pension, above all.”
The Communist Party executive member is contesting the South-West Norfolk seat represented by Ms Truss, whose disastrous blink-and-you’ll-miss-it premiership is widely blamed for the Conservatives’ submerged poll ratings.
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