The Altmann furore: Does it really matter?

From the blog: They say a leopard never changes its spots but a government adviser can certainly change their political colours, it seems.

It would have been hard to miss all the hoopla yesterday in which Conservative pensions minister Ros Altmann was reported to have been booted out of the Labour party on Monday - news which had many a pension commentator all a-flutter on Twitter.

The Guardian reported that Ros was a card-carrying Labour supporter right up until Monday, despite being made a Tory peer following this year’s election result. Whoops.

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