Giving workers the freedom to spend their retirement savings as they choose is backed by two thirds of voters, a new poll shows in a big boost for George Osborne.
The Chancellor’s dramatic announcement in Wednesday’s Budget is supported by 66 per cent in the YouGov survey published today in The Sun. The poll also shows strong backing for his other measures to support savers hit by low interest rates.
Tory hopes that the package will give them election-winning momentum are given another boost by a finding which shows that more voters believe that their own and the country’s finances will improve as a result of the Budget.
Ministers defended the new right for workers to choose how to invest their pension savings in the