Claim: The last Labour government once raised the basic state pension by 75p.
Fact-check: Pensions under Labour and the Conservatives - Full Fact
Verdict: correct, but this was an outlier. that was the rise in the full basic state pension in april 2000. looking at the increase in this payment after inflation, it was higher on average under labour between 1997 and 2010 than under the coalition and conservatives since 2010.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2017-04-26T00:00:00