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Sir Keir Starmer is facing a Labour backlash and fresh Tory attacks over the Government’s decision to strip the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners. The decision by the Prime Minister and Chancellor Rachel Reeves would result in a “bureaucratic and unpopular means test” for older people, Poole MP Neil Duncan-Jordan said as he tabled a Commons motion calling for the Government to delay the move.
Only those receiving pension credit or other means-tested benefits will be eligible for the payment in England and Wales as a result of the Government’s decision, which ministers have said is needed to help fill a £22 billion black hole in the public finances. But Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch accused ministers of being “dishonest” about the state of the public finances, claiming they were trying to “pull the wool over the eyes of the British public”.
Sir Keir defended the move,
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