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Keir Starmer says cutting the universal winter fuel allowance for pensioners is a ‘tough decision’ Labour has to take. But many of his MPs were not happy, as Peter Walker reportsKeir Starmer has been talking a lot about “tough decisions” since he became prime minister this summer. For some of his MPs, tough decisions came almost immediately – with a vote on the two-child benefit cap. Seven Labour MPs who rebelled against the party line and voted to scrap the cap found they had the whip removed.Then the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced another controversial “tough decision”: the winter fuel payment paid to all pensioners to help with their heating bills was to be axed. The Guardian’s senior political correspondent Peter Walker says when MPs returned to their constituency over the summer they were left in little doubt of how worried it had left pensioners who were struggling to make ends meet. Continue reading…
Keir Starmer says cutting the universal winter fuel allowance for pensioners is a ‘tough decision’ Labour has to take. But many of his MPs were not happy, as Peter Walker reports
Keir Starmer has been talking a lot about “tough decisions” since he became prime minister this summer. For some of his MPs, tough decisions came almost immediately – with a vote on the two-child benefit cap. Seven Labour MPs who rebelled against the party line and voted to scrap the cap found they had the whip removed.
Then the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced another controversial “tough decision”: the winter fuel payment paid to all pensioners to help with their heating bills was to be axed. The Guardian’s senior political correspondent Peter Walker says when MPs returned to their constituency over the summer they were left in little doubt of how worried it had left pensioners who were struggling to make ends meet.
