Pensions minister Ros Altmann leaves government

Ros Altmann has left her role as pensions minister and has called on government to radically reform the pension system.

In her resignation letter, Altmann (pictured) said that while she has tried to drive "positive long-term changes on pensions", short-term political considerations "exacerbated by the EU referendum, have inhibited good policy making". PM Theresa May's new-look Cabinet She highlighted the need for an overhaul of the tax relief system which "favours highest earners disproportionately, while leaving lower earners seriously disadvantaged" and an end to the "discrimination against Britain's lowest earners who are forced to pay at least 20% more for their pensions than higher paid earners". ...