Today’s Mirror reveals that Francis Maude, one of the leading ministers in the push to cut our pensions, could himself look forward to a pension of around £43,000 a year – which means he has a pensions pot of around £731,000!
While he himself can look forward to a very good pension, the average civil servant can only look forward to an occupational pension of £5600 – an stark illustration of the inequalities that exist in pensions provision in this country.