Firstly, It has to be noted Sunak is doing nothing to tackle inflation. He is actively giving his donors free reign to fleece the population in many areas, energy being the most egregious. So the cost to the benefits system is firmly at the door of the Tories and their practises over the last 14 years.

My personal belief is that all benefits should be triple locked. We should not be arguing for the lowest possible denominator, we should be looking at what is needed. Some pensioners need that payment as much as people need wages. Don't buy into Tory rhetoric that another group should be suffering as much as you are. Get a proper and fair tax system up and running. Stop the Tory donations from corrupting our politicians. Rejoin the EU so businesses can function again. Give us voting reform so we can stop this ever happening again.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was committed to the government's mechanism for increasing state pensions even though it is likely to cost billions of pounds more than usual given high inflation.

"Of course the government is committed to its policy on the triple lock," Sunak told ITV News on Wednesday when asked whether he would stick to the pledge despite the rate of inflation.

"Now there is a statutory, a legal, process for determining the increase in pensions and benefits that happens in the autumn and that's where those final decisions are made."

Data published earlier on Wednesday showed Britain's headline rate of inflation dropped sharply to 6.8% in July but remained more than three times the Bank of England's target.

At the start of 2023 Sunak set himself a target of halving inflation this year, something which remains in the balance as price growth has proven more persistent than forecast.

Last November, with inflation in double-digits, finance minister Jeremy Hunt decided to raise state retirement and welfare benefits payments in line with price growth at a cost of about 11 billion pounds ($14.02 billion).

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