Why Can't Britain Fix Its Pensions? | IEA Podcast

Podcast: IEA Podcast · Institute of Economic Affairs

Opublikowano: 2026-09-25

In this Institute of Economic Affairs podcast, IEA Director General Lord Hannan is joined by Kristian Niemietz, Editorial Director and Head of Political Economy, and Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics. This week, the proposal to replace the state pension with a system of compulsory private saving is up for discussion. Also on the agenda are the debate over the “strange death of libertarianism” and a House of Lords committee’s call to ban gambling advertising. Could a funded pension system on the Australian or Chilean model ever survive the politics of “scrapping the state pension”...