Decisions. one such decision for the government is whether or not to raise pensions in line with inflation or a cost of living, known as the triple lock guaranty that is in place at the moment and was in the 2019 conservative party manifesto and there had been slightly confusing suggestions in the last 24 hours or so. earlier my colleague and need to ask the observer columnist and chief political correspondent for the financial times for their reactions. it s a big financial commitment and it s also the latest and a few occasions with this new government where they leave this vacuum where members of government can say we are doing this unpopular or controversial thing and no one steps in and says they are not, so they get badly headlines per day or two when they did this with rental reform and then it was going to be dumped and it was up in the and they got the bad headlines and it s