Winter fuel payments pressure is resisted

SIR Keir Starmer yesterday rejected calls for a U-turn over the Government's decision to strip winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners, after Labour suffered a backlash at the ballot box last week.

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The Prime Minister acknowledged his Government needed to “explain the decisions that we've taken”, after a “disappointing” set of election results.

Welsh First Minister Baroness Eluned Morgan said the decision to means-test the previously universal benefit was “something that comes up time and again”, as she called for a “rethink”.