Turning 65 used to mean mandatory retirement and a future of endless holiday. But in 2016 in Britain it came to signify a very different cut-off: Membership in the single most pro-Brexit age group in the June 23 EU referendum.

British chancellor George Osborne was last night accused of imposing a £1bn “granny tax” on pensioners as he used his budget to cut the 50p top rate for Britain’s wealthiest earners and lift thousands of low-paid workers out of taxation altogether.