内容摘要：Increases are currently based on a formula adopted in the UK that increases pensions annually by the highest of three options, namely 2.5%, CPI inflation, or average wage increases.

Increases are currently based on a formula adopted in the UK that increases pensions annually by the highest of three options, namely 2.5%, CPI inflation, or average wage increases.

"In some ways he's been interpreted as very radical."Some comments I've heard today perhaps sum it up: he's both annoyed [and] agitated, some conservatives, and on the other hand agitated many liberals, so that's always a good sign, I think.

"He hasn't been in any one camp, he has always sought to search for and serve the truth."When Matt Raw was evacuated from Wuhan along with a number of other Britons facing exposure Covid-19 in 2020, he never expected the virus to have "ramifications" that have changed the way we live to this day.Five years on from his journey and subsequent fortnight of quarantine at a facility behind Wirral's Arrowe Park Hospital, Matt said there were "still people who blame me for bringing it into England".

"Whenever I tell anybody that we were the first people repatriated from Wuhan, naturally the first joke is: 'Oh, so you brought it here'."Matt, along with his mother and wife Ying, were among the 83 Britons transported from RAF Brize Norton, where their evacuation flight from Wuhan had landed in the UK.

A convoy of coaches, complete with police escort, then moved the repatriated Brits to the isolation unit at Arrowe Park Hospital.

They would later be joined by 11 more British nationals from Wuhan.The closure meant 83 redundancies "many of whom have worked for the company since 2007 and some who worked for Royal Stafford Tableware prior to that".

"The directors have pursued every avenue possible to save the business, but without the guarantee of a profitable forward order book, this was not possible," the firm said.Insolvency firm Moore Recovery had placed the company into liquidation and a closing-down sale was planned.

A Grade I listed Norwich landmark - hailed as a masterpiece of Victorian gothic architecture - has been added to Historic England's Heritage at risk list.The Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Baptist, completed in 1910, was deemed to be at risk due to its rainwater pipes becoming "simply overwhelmed by the increased levels of rainfall in recent years".