It is one of the most controversial welfare policies, so why is Reform explicitly promising to keep it? Sean O’Grady has the answers N igel Farage , political darling of Britain ’s over-65s, has executed a rather unsurprising U-turn. Perpetually hovering between his mean-spirited Thatcherite anti-welfare instincts on the one hand and fiscally reckless populism on the other, the Reform UK leader has firmly sided with his most reliable voters . The “ triple lock ” that protects the state