Rachel Reeves should reintroduce an age-related personal allowance for older people to protect the state pension from tax , a campaigner has suggested.

Dennis Reed, the director of Silver Voices, accused the Chancellor of getting into a “right royal pickle” over her extension of a freeze on the lower tax threshold.

This policy means that from 2027, older people on the new state pension could find themselves paying tax on this, as it will exceed the frozen personal allowance of £12,570.

In the following years, Mr Reed warned the majority of pensioners would be sucked into the tax system and start paying tax on their triple lock increases.

Kemi Badenoch demands Reeves resign in blistering attack on the Chancellor

He said: “I am pleased that the Chancellor has recognised the inj

See Full Page