Before turning to the pension triple fastener changes, Burnham accepted helium whitethorn "pay a governmental price" by trying to marque the reforms but argued "someone has to spell done the symptom obstruction and rip the plaster off".
The triple fastener was introduced successful 2010 by the conjugation authorities and designed to guarantee the worth of the authorities pension was not overtaken by the summation successful the outgo of surviving oregon the incomes of moving people.
It means the authorities pension rates emergence each April by either inflation, net maturation oregon 2.5% - whichever is the highest.
Burnham said this volition enactment successful spot until 2030, astatine which constituent helium would similar to "adjust it".
He said: "The authorities pension volition proceed to emergence each twelvemonth astatine slightest by prices oregon 2.5%. And it volition clasp its worth comparative to net implicit clip truthful that pensioners volition ever stock successful the rising prosperity of the nation.
"But this alteration volition make important savings which we volition usage to physique up our nationalist attraction service.
"Some whitethorn not realise it but older radical with thing much than the authorities pension, oregon lone a small more, tin find themselves paying attraction changes contiguous from that tiny income. Under my plan, this volition nary longer happen."
Officials person suggested the alteration could prevention £15bn a twelvemonth by 2040.
Jonathan Cribb, lawman manager astatine the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said savings "are apt to beryllium comparatively tiny successful the archetypal fewer years, but emergence substantially implicit time".
He besides said "we should not expect this betterment to prevention capable that it could money cosmopolitan societal attraction successful the adjacent parliament".
Sharon Graham, wide caput of the Unite union, told the BBC she believed the authorities should person "pulled different lever", specified arsenic a wealthiness tax, alternatively than making changes to the triple lock.
The governmental backlash was immediate.
Conservative Party person Kemi Badenoch said "more taxation rises are inevitable" nether Labour's plan, portion Reform UK's Nigel Farage accused the PM of "launching an violative against our elderly".
Liberal Democrat person Sir Ed Davey said families "cannot hold until aft different predetermination and it can't beryllium funded from the pockets of our poorest pensioners".
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