But not if the Work and Pensions Secretary has his way; Mel Stride thinks that increases in longevity haven't happened as planned since Covid. And it's life expectancy that's the crucial factor here: when the pension age was originally set at 65 for men, the poor things couldn't expect to last much past 70.
Just as well this isn't France. A few days ago, about a million people took to the streets to complain that President Macron was raising the retirement age to ... 64. Naturally public sector workers were especially prominent: the self-employed rather less so.
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