Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd MP has quit her Cabinet role and her Conservative Party membership in protest at the expulsion of 21 MPs from the party.

Former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has slammed the findings of a new report which suggested the State Pension age should rise to 75.

Royal London has warned against a “drastic” proposal to raise the State Pension age to 75.

Guy Opperman MP will remain in his Government post as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Pensions and Financial Inclusion.