Sir Keir Starmer has defended scrapping winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners, saying his government had to take “tough decisions to stabilise the economy”.
During Prime Minister’s Questions, Conservative leader Rishi Sunak accused Sir Keir of choosing to fund “inflation-busting pay rises” for train drivers over support for vulnerable pensioners.
But the PM blamed the Tories for leaving a “£22bn black hole” in the public finances. From this autumn, older people in England and Wales not on pension credit or other means-tested benefits will no longer get annual winter fuel payments, worth between £100 and £300.
Source: BBC
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