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Reform MPs Opt Into Local Government Pension Scheme

8/24/2026

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  • Reform MPs Nigel Farage (MP), Richard Tice (MP) and Robert Jenrick (MP) are saving into the Local Government Pension Scheme.
  • All Reform MPs are enrolled while eight Labour and five Conservative MPs have opted out.
  • Reform will bar new entrants from local government pensions and move hires to defined-contribution schemes.
  • Farage called the schemes the “single biggest ticking bomb” and termed the gap “pension apartheid”.