Triple lock move is significant, but it's a gamble

It was a significant announcement from Prime Minister Andy Burnham on his plans for the triple lock after the general election. It will reverberate well beyond the hall.

For months, I have heard suggestions that Andy Burnham was warm to suggestions that the triple lock as we know it had to go.

I had expected him to try to forge a political consensus on this thorny issue at this stage, but he has gone further than that. He has tried…