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10 September 2024

  • Keir Starmer delivering a statement to members of Parliament

    ‘We’ll get the blame’: tensions simmer within Labour over winter fuel cut

  • A man sitting at home with a rug on his knees and a cup of tea

    MPs back cuts to winter fuel payments in Commons vote

  • Stock image of a smart energy meter.

    Energy suppliers told to improve customer service or face firm action

  • A sign from Thames Water while repair work takes place on a residential street

    Remainder of year’s water bills will pay dividends and service debts, say campaigners

9 September 2024

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Winter fuel payments test for Labour – podcast

    The Guardian’s Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey talk about Labour’s first big test in parliament over their winter fuel payments policy. Plus, will Keir Starmer’s trip to Washington be awkward after his decision on arms licences to Israel?
  • A senior woman holds a gas bill against the windowsill and puts her hands to a radiator; she is wearing a cardigan and the light suggests it is winter

    Why is Labour’s proposed winter fuel payments cut controversial?

    The decision has become Labour’s first political crisis but is the government likely to change course?
  • A person with an electric heater

    Ministers facing pressure from unions over winter fuel payment cut

    TUC and Unite leaders express ‘real concerns’ over policy as many Labour MPs expected to abstain in Commons vote

7 September 2024

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, holds a press conference after her statement to MPs on the state of public finances on 29 July.

    There’s no need to cut poorer pensioners’ income. Smarter winter fuel solutions are at hand

    Steve Webb
    Payments could be restricted to those living in lower council tax bands, as money expert Martin Lewis has suggested, writes former pensions minister Steve Webb
  • Keir Starmer defended plans to limit winter fuel payments at prime minister’s questions as the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, looked on.

    Winter fuel payments cut ‘one of the worst decisions I have ever seen’ says ex pensions minister

    Crossbench peer will table ‘fatal’ Lords motion, as Starmer faces damaging rebellion in Commons vote
  • Side profile of Rachel Reeves

    Labour ministers reveal grave concerns about winter fuel payment cut

    Frontbenchers say they have had string of complaints from constituents and policy ‘won’t be worth the political hit’

6 September 2024

  • Raymond Dixon leans on a wooden fence outside his house

    ‘Will we freeze to death?’: trepidation in England’s snowiest village over loss of winter fuel payment

    Pensioners in Copley, which has 53 days of snow a year on average, say plan to limit help will be a ‘big loss’

5 September 2024

  • Older person sitting in armchair next to heater

    MPs to vote on winter fuel allowance cuts as Labour backbench unease grows

  • Larry Elliott

    Labour’s decision to cut winter fuel payments is mean and politically inept

    Larry Elliott

3 September 2024

  • Stocks of food at a Trussell Trust food bank

    Most working families on universal credit struggle to buy essentials, research shows

    The Trussell Trust has called for urgent action after half of people on low-income benefits ran out of food in last month

2 September 2024

  • Children drawing in an art class

    Pay-as-you-go schooling: parents under pressure to fund essentials

    ‘Voluntary’ donations of up to £300 a year are increasingly being asked for to balance the books. But this can lead to inequality within schools

30 August 2024

  • Thames Water is blighted by sewage scandals, fines and huge debts.

    Thames Water lobbied Whitehall to press Ofwat on allowing higher bills

    Exclusive: Debt-ridden company also warned officials of ‘chilling effect’ of any renationalisation

28 August 2024

  • An energy meter on a worktop in front of a kettle

    Support planned for UK households struggling with winter energy bills

  • Thirugnanam Sureshan

    I can’t even afford to charge my wheelchair. So how are people like me expected to afford the energy price rise?

    Thirugnanam Sureshan
  • Thames Water vans parked on a road

    Thames Water says without steep bill increase it’s ‘neither financeable nor investible’

  • New homes are being built in Cheshire

    Water bills must rise if Labour is to hit housebuilding target, industry claims

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