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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared the pension age will not rise to 75 under his watch.

In a new report, the Centre for Social Justice - a Tory think tank - has proposed an increase of the pension age to 70 by 2028 and 75 by 2035.

The pension age is already set to increase to 67 by 2028 and to 68 by 2046 – but the organisation, co-founded by former Conservative leader and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan-Smith, wants to see a faster increase.

However, Mr Johnson told journalists in Truro on a visit to the Royal Cornwall Hospital that he wouldn't increase the pension age.

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He said: "I just met a paediatrician who said 'whatever you do don't raise the pension age'.

"I said I wouldn't, so there you go. We have absolutely no plan to do so."

An aghast PM added: "That's a think tank proposal, that's not our proposal, that's not news!"

Mr Johnson was visiting Cornwall's main hospital at Treliske to verify the £100 million he promised for a new women and children's ward will definitely go ahead.

He was also promoting vaccinations after the UK lost its measles-free status.

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The Prime Minister said: "I think there's complacency on the part of parents about the need to get that second vaccine but also, I'm afraid, people have been listening to that superstitious mumbo jumbo on the internet, all that anti-vax stuff and thinking that the MMR vaccine is a bad idea.

"That's wrong."

He added: "Please get your kids vaccinated because it's not just the right thing for them, but also of course it is the right thing for the whole population because it might not be your kid that gets it, it could be somebody else's."