LONDON — British politics has few landmines as explosive as the triple lock. The policy of raising the U.K. state pension each year by either inflation, average earnings or 2.5 percent — whichever is highest — has trapped Britain’s two main parties since 2012 in a bind that, for some, has come to symbolize the paralysis of the state. Despite economists lining up to warn it will become unsustainable, neither the ruling Labour Party nor opposition Conservatives — each fighting for the “grey vote”

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