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

Prime Minister seeks to raise hopes by talking of ‘the light of a fairer Britain’ - but warns ‘tough’ decisions are needed to sort out Britain’s crippled public finances

Evening Standard · Sep 10, 2024

UK wages figures will affect state pension, interest rates – and Rachel Reeves

Likely 4% pension rise next year could help defuse row facing chancellor over winter fuel payment

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2024

Rachel Reeves urged by Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to consider softening cuts to winter fuel payments

His appeal came ahead of a crunch Commons vote on the controversial reform

Evening Standard · Sep 10, 2024

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Tuesday briefing: Will a vote on Labour’s plan to cut the winter fuel payment lead to backbench rebellion?

In today’s newsletter: The new government’s plan to restrict a winter welfare payment to the elderly has emerged as a key issue just months in their reign

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2024

Brent crude tumbles below $70 per barrel as oversupply fears hit oil price – as it happened

Brent crude has hit its lowest level since December 2021

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2024

Reeves urged to make tax changes ‘to raise more than £20bn a year’

Resolution Foundation suggests proposals on capital gains tax, inheritance tax and national insurance

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2024

When is the Winter Fuel Payment vote and how can you watch it?

ON Tuesday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Keir Starmer will put their cut to the Winter Fuel Payment to a vote ...

The National (Scotland) · Sep 9, 2024

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Future pay deals will be shaped by tough decisions, Starmer to tell TUC

PM expected to make clear in key Brighton speech that he will not risk economic stability ‘under any circumstances’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

Chancellor faces down would-be rebels ahead of winter fuel payment vote

Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs that axing allowance for all but poorest pensioners will help plug £22bn hole in finances

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

Rachel Reeves pleads with Labour MPs not to rebel over Winter Fuel Payment cut

RACHEL Reeves has warned Labour MPs there will be more difficult cuts to come as she pleaded with them not to rebel against her ending the…

The National (Scotland) · Sep 9, 2024

No one cares who will lead the Tories next, not even them

The Lucky Five are soon to become four as the contest limps on. Meanwhile, Victoria Atkins assists herself to an own goal

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

Treasury has tried to push previous chancellors to means-test winter fuel allowance

Policy ‘always shot down immediately’ by Tories but was part of prepared series of options presented to Rachel Reeves, insiders say

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

Labour refuses to publish impact assessment of winter fuel payment cuts until after MPs have voted

Exclusive: Energy minister Miatta Fahnbulleh confirmed her department has assessed the impact the policy change will have on pensioners living in fuel poverty, but said only that it will be published ‘in due course’

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2024

This winter fuel fiasco will save Labour £1.3bn this year. But it will cost Starmer more

The PM’s poor approval rating suggests a tricky road ahead, and the Treasury’s macho posturing won’t help anyone, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

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?

Evening Standard · Sep 9, 2024

Susanna Reid chides minister on GMB for saying axing winter fuel payment for pensioners 'difficult decision'

ITV’s Good Morning Britain presenter took Dame Diana to task over the controversial policy which is opposed by dozens of MPs and unions

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

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

Chancellor tells meeting of parliamentary Labour party there will be more difficult decisions to come

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2024

Cut to winter fuel payment could kill 4,000 people, Labour’s own research suggests

Analysis published by Labour in 2017 said plans to means test winter fuel payments would be the ‘single biggest attack on pensioners in a generation’

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

Billions lost from small retailers in tax evasion, says watchdog

National Audit Office says trail of tax debts left by small UK retailers is widespread and increasing every year

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2024

Tory Covid contracts worth £15bn had corruption ‘red flags’, study finds

Findings by Transparency International UK point to ‘more than coincidence or incompetence’, says chief executive

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2024

Up to 50 Labour MPs could rebel over cut to winter fuel allowance

Dozens said to be considering abstaining from Tuesday’s vote over pensioners’ payments, as PM says dealing with dissent is ‘matter for chief whip’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2024

They talk about tough choices: they mean cuts. Is Labour on the side of working people or not?

Ahead of tomorrow’s TUC conference, we need to know if ministers are prepared to break with austerity or if they are stuck in the past, says Unite general secretary Sharon Graham

The Independent UK · Sep 8, 2024

Rachel Reeves to blast Tory legacy at Labour conference ahead of ‘painful’ Budget

Inheritance left to Keir Starmer’s government by the last Conservative government will be a major theme at Labour’s first annual conference in power for 14 years

The Independent UK · Sep 8, 2024

Keir Starmer says he will ‘have to be unpopular’ amid winter fuel payment backlash

Accusing his predecessors of ‘running away from difficult decisions’, the prime minister said Labour can only deliver change if he makes ‘tough choices’ now

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