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10 September 2024

  • An older lady holds her hands close to an electric fire

    Today in Focus
    Will Labour’s cold winter of cuts be worth it? – podcast

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Starmer finds grateful TUC audience – and paltry Commons dissent on winter fuel allowance

    John Crace
  • A woman in a warm jumper and covered with a blanket trying to keep warm by a radiator.

    Critics of winter fuel payment cut to fight on after government wins vote

  • A woman warming her hands over an electric heater at home

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer faces rebellion as 53 Labour MPs abstain over winter fuel and one votes with Tories – as it happened

  • ‘They’ve robbed us’: UK pensioners on losing the winter fuel payment

  • MPs back cuts to winter fuel payments in Commons vote

9 September 2024

  • Rachel Reeves in Downing Street last week.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – as it happened

  • 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?

  • Rich Pelley

    Welcome aboard: I’m Rich. Easyjet is seeking older cabin crew, but would you want to fly with me?

    Rich Pelley
  • A person with an electric heater

    Ministers facing pressure from unions over winter fuel payment cut

8 September 2024

  • Sir Keir Starmer, during a 'pre-record' for the BBC 1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

    The Guardian view on winter fuel payments: a mess of Labour’s own making over benefit cuts

    Editorial: The government wants to act tough over the public finances. But ministers look mean, unjust and politically inept

7 September 2024

  • Energy bill on phone screen

    Reeves can loosen Britain’s purse strings: she just needs to think outside the Treasury box

    The chancellor claims she needs to shave pennies from all departments, but there are other options for dealing with the £22bn funding hole
  • Rosie Duffield speaks in the Commons, 2023.

    Winter fuel pay decision ‘brutal’ and could lead to deaths, says Labour MP

    Rosie Duffield latest MP to voice concerns as she reveals letters from cancer patients worried about keeping warm
  • 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

  • Kevin McCloud

    Brief letters
    It’s all cisterns go for the modern home

    Brief letters: Kevin McCloud | Book lice | Heart symbols | Ofsted gradings | Medicinal properties of Guinness
  • Older person sitting in armchair next to heater

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

    Several Labour MPs sign motion asking for move to be reconsidered before binding vote takes place next Tuesday
  • Larry Elliott

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

    Larry Elliott
    Means-testing will hit up to 2 million people. Rachel Reeves would be wise to admit she was wrong, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

4 September 2024

  • Starmer pressed on changes to winter fuel payment for older people – video

    Keir Starmer told MPs the Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch had previously expressed support for the winter fuel measure

3 September 2024

  • Keir Starmer at the dispatch box in the House of Commons

    Starmer to face test next week as MPs vote on limiting winter fuel allowance

    Plan to means-test benefit for pensioners criticised by opposition parties and some Labour backbenchers
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