This week on the podcat, Tom is joined by Lansons director and partner Ralph Jackson.

In Tom's own words, Ralph "has been doing policymaking on behalf of financial services firms since before I even knew it was a thing. He has a wealth of knowledge and insight about how the system works and how firms engage with political change."

In this episode, Tom and Ralph discuss getting to consensus in pensions and politics, and whether we have some lost some of the in-house expertise among policymakers in pensions and investments that we had previously.

Ralph puts forward the idea of some sort of "annual event" to act as an independent review of pensions policy and whether people are saving enough - akin to the relationship between the Office of Budget Responsibility and the Treasury.

They also chat about paying for social care and the read-across to pensions, plus the role of select committees and the trade press and consumer media in holding politicians to account.

Ralph also offers up some predictions about Boris Johnson's future as prime minister.

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