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Fuel poverty

15 September 2024

  • A pensioner struggles to keep warm at home.

    Charities demand to meet UK ministers as 1.6m disabled OAPs set to lose winter fuel payments

  • Labour MPs in the Commons

    Observer letters
    In ending the winter fuel allowance, this is not the Labour party I voted for

13 September 2024

  • Keir Starmer exits an official UK aircraft onto waiting red steps

    Starmer says rebuilding UK means painful decisions, not just ‘a lick of paint’

    PM defends choices such as cutting winter fuel allowance as long-term remedies as polls show his popularity falling

11 September 2024

  • Senior Man Trying To Keep Warm

    Triple lock won’t save pensioners from Labour’s winter fuel blunder

  • Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak at PMQs

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Starmer accused of ‘hiding’ assessment of winter fuel payment cut on pensioners – as it happened

  • MPs vote in the Commons on the plan to scale back winter fuel payments

    Budget will need difficult tax, welfare and spending decisions, Reeves warns

  • An older lady holds her hands close to an electric fire

    Today in Focus
    Will Labour’s cold winter of cuts be worth it? – podcast

10 September 2024

  • Keir Starmer delivering a statement to members of Parliament

    ‘We’ll get the blame’: tensions simmer within Labour over winter fuel cut

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Starmer finds grateful TUC audience – and paltry Commons dissent on winter fuel allowance

    John Crace
  • A woman in a warm jumper and covered with a blanket trying to keep warm by a radiator.

    Critics of winter fuel payment cut to fight on after government wins vote

  • A woman warming her hands over an electric heater at home

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer faces rebellion as 53 Labour MPs abstain over winter fuel and one votes with Tories – as it happened

  • ‘They’ve robbed us’: UK pensioners on losing the winter fuel payment

  • MPs back cuts to winter fuel payments in Commons vote

9 September 2024

  • Rachel Reeves in Downing Street last week.

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

  • Ben Jennings on Labour’s plan to cut winter fuel payments to pensioners – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Labour’s plan to cut winter fuel payments to pensioners – cartoon

  • Simon Jenkins

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

    Simon Jenkins
  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Winter fuel payments test for Labour – podcast

  • Why is Labour’s proposed winter fuel payments cut controversial?

  • Ministers facing pressure from unions over winter fuel payment cut

8 September 2024

  • Rachel Reeves adressing the House of Commons in July

    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’
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