winter fuel payments

The PM has insisted the government had no choice but to take the benefit off 10 million old people.
PM repeatedly refuses to say sorry for the controversial move when grilled by Susanna Reid.
The party leaders are expected to move the debate over cutting the winter fuel payments.
Peter Kyle struggled to explain why no impact assessment was done on the controversial policy.
Yet health secretary Wes Streeting insists pensioners will still be better off this winter.
Keir Starmer has been accused of "hiding" the potential impact of the controversial policy.
MPs backed the controversial policy, but the government's majority was slashed.
It's a claim going around on social media ahead of today's Commons vote on winter fuel payments.
"Going to war with pensioners was always going to be a gamble and so far it doesn’t look like it is paying off."