It's the old that get the benefits, and the Tories the election wins

The government spends more than twice as much on each pensioner as on each working-age Briton One of the major shifts in government spending over recent years has been away from young people and towards those in retirement. A study due this week from the Intergenerational Foundation thinktank shows that while spending on pensioners and children respectively increased at similar rates before 2010-11, the austerity years to 2019 proved much more generous to the old. The report finds that in 2018-1...