'You are not answering my question!' Anne Diamond GRILLS Liz Kendall on pension tax - 'We want to know what YOU are promising!'

Under the plans, the personal allowance for pensioners would increase by at least 2.5 per cent, or in line with the highest of earnings or inflation, meaning fewer would have to pay income tax on it.

Labour has not set out whether it would make a similar move but said the Conservatives' plan was not "credible".

Speaking to GB News, Kendall said: "We are absolutely clear we will never make spending commitments we can't keep. I think it is completely rich for the Tories when they are the people who have said they have raised taxes to the highest burden in 70 years.

"People are paying more and getting less. We have a cast iron commitment to economic stability, to the triple lock on the state pension and crucially to make sure our economy grows so future pensioners have those decent funds in retirement.

"I would say to your viewers, look at the tax burden under the Tories. The only party that is putting your pension at risk and threatens higher taxes on people is the Conservatives.

"If you have five more years of the Tories, you'll have five more years of the same result. We are absolutely committed to that on the state pension and our message to people here is if you want change, you need to vote for it."

Anne said: "I'm not sure you answered my question there."

Kendall said: "It is the Tories who have raised taxes on ordinary working people and they are the people who are putting..."

Anne fumed: "That is not a yes or no though" She said: "The Tories are the ones putting the state pension at risk."

The GB News host said: "We want to know what you are doing."

She responded: "Our clear commitment, we promise to retain the triple lock, the pension triple lock over the Parliament to guarantee economic stability with tough spending rules and rules and a clear fiscal lock and for the future to make sure our economy grows so we can make sure the pension funds of this country grow too."

More than 12 million people currently receive the state pension.

Men and women born between October 6, 1954, and April 5, 1960, start receiving their pension at the age of 66.

But for people born after this date, the state pension age is increasing.