Equalising the gold at the end of the rainbow

Rachel Dalton on why the marriage act's failure to close a loophole hampers equality

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The Marriage Act received royal assent last week, among jubilation in Parliament Square; politicians in support of the reform wore pink flowers in their lapels and activists flew rainbow flags in the street. Even culture secretary Maria Miller was moved to say that the campaign for marriage equality was on a par with the suffragette movement.

I hate to be an old sour-puss, but there is one tiny niggle: pensions. Attempts failed to remove the loophole allowing schemes to pay civil partners and same sex spouses less survivors' benefits th...

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