The Conservatives will fight the next election on a commitment to keep the triple lock, the party’s policy supremo has told The i Paper .

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has faced calls to scrap the triple lock in order to win back younger voters and slash the welfare bill.

Despite those calls, the Tories will not touch the policy at the next election, Neil O’Brien, Tory MP MP for Harborough, Oadby, and Wigston said. New Feature

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“We’re not going to touch it. We’ve been super clear about this,” O’Brien said in an interview. “That’s going to be our policy at the next election.”

The triple lock on the state pension was introduced by David Cameron in 2011 and guarantees it rises every year by whichever is the highest; 2.5 per cent, the incr

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