Unite union said members were unhappy at plans to cut a link between basic pay and overtime and other enhanced rates.

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Despite his "I'm listening" pledge, Mr Blair immediately insisted he would not abide by the decision and would not restore the link between the basic state pension and average earnings.

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That has opened the way to restoring the earnings link to the basic state pension, another no-go area for the chancellor, but an indispensable reform if means-testing is to be arrested and saving encouraged.

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In opposition he insisted on abandoning the Labour Party's commitment to restoring the earnings link for raising the basic state pension, ditched by Margaret Thatcher to save money.

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At the end of an inquest at Leicester Town Hall, coroner Catherine Mason said there was "gross failure to provide basic medical attention to Mr Sandhu" and this had a direct link with his death.

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The collapse of the Soviet Union did not cause the Russian people to revisit the basic ideological and moral assumptions on which the Soviet regime was predicated, or link those assumptions to the eventual implosion of the Soviet empire.

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