Workers Revolutionary Party AT THE weekend, The Telegraph newspaper reported that Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak is âmullingâ over his options for breaking the triple lock on pensions â effectively plunging millions of UK pensioners into extreme poverty. The triple lock, a cast iron guarantee in the last Tory party manifesto, commits the government to increase state pensions to match the highest average earnings, the rate of inflation or by 2.5 per cent whichever figure is the largest. Sunak has long mulled over exactly how to break this pledge in order to save the Treasury billions to pay down the huge government debt run up bailing out British capitalism during the pandemic.