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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Winter fuel allowance: More than 50 Labour MPs fail to back Keir Starmer in crunch Commons vote

Sir Keir Starmer has seen off a backbench rebellion over plans to cut the winter fuel allowance but the Government's majority fell to 120.

MPs voted 348 to 228 to axe the payment for all but the country's poorest pensioners, rejecting a Tory bid for the controversial policy to be blocked.

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