A leaked letter from Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander endorsed almost every point unions had made on public sector pensions, the TUC said in response at the end of July.
The letter 'could have been written by any of the union negotiators', the TUC said, adding that Mr Lansley confirmed that the Government was grabbing money from public sector workers to pay down a deficit they did nothing to create.
The Government's approach would have the perverse consequence of making the deficit worse, as the state would still have to pay current schemes but would get no benefit from the contributions of those who leave their schemes.
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