UK Election 2010

Society of Pension Consultants president elect Kevin LeGrand, Barnett Waddingham senior partner Adrian Waddingham and BESTrustees chairman Alan Pickering have all agreed to join a new PP Pensions Commission.

Follow all the pensions news and opinion in the run up to this year's poll on May 6.

The Liberal Democrats have unveiled their 2010 election manifesto - outlining plans to scrap higher rate tax relief on pension contributions.

Steve Bee - the former Head of Pensions at Prudential and pension strategist at Royal London - has updated his list of ministerial teams who have steered pensions policy since Labour came to power.

The Conservatives have unveiled their 2010 election manifesto - outlining plans to "reinvigorate" occupational pensions.

The Tories have pledged to raise the the secondary threshold at which employers start paying National Insurance by £21 a week, countering what it calls Labour's "job tax" of a 1% NI increase.

A Labour manifesto commitment to increase the basic state pension in line with earnings from 2012 will cost £2bn a year by the end of the next parliament, Towers Watson warns.

The Labour Party has unveiled its 2010 election manifesto - but has failed to make any new promises on pensions.

The pensions focused U Party is to field another candidate in the upcoming general election.

Friends Provident is calling on the next government to help build a healthier savings culture in the UK.