Pressure on Starmer over winter fuel cash squeeze after local election results

Sir Keir Starmer is coming under increasing pressure from his own party (Henry Nicholls/PA) - (PA Wire)

A senior Labour figure called for a rethink in the decision to means-test the winter fuel allowance as ministers acknowledged stripping the payments from millions of pensioners contributed to Labour’s hammering at the ballot box.

Welsh First Minister Baroness Eluned Morgan said the decision to axe the universal benefit was “something that comes up time and again” as she called for a U-turn.