Connor Williams: Pension reform is necessary and inevitable

Connor Williams: Pension reform is necessary and inevitable

Connor Sutherland Williams is a Cardiff University alumnus with an interest in limited government and political reform. The UK state pension was introduced after the Second World War under the Labour government led by Clement Attlee. At that time, there were vast numbers of retirees with no pension provisions who could not continue working. The solution was to fund pensions through National Insurance: current workers would actively pay for curre…