Sir ker stormer Has been forced into Dramatic U-turn on the government’s controversial winter fuel payment deduction After months of increasing anger from voters and labor MPs.
In a big climb Rahel reeves‘Decision’ Strip payment from 10 million pensionersThe Prime Minister said that he wanted to widen the eligibility “as” the economy improves “.
But no 10 denied to say whether there would be changes in this winter-or who will be affected-which means cash-stapped pensioners Another cold of sorrow can be faced.
Instead of giving to all pensioners, annual payments up to £ 300 mean, the Labor’s recent local election results were widely convicted, with Nigel Faraj’s improvement party to take 677 council seats in England.
It comes in the form of Sir Kire that they revolve around their party’s fate, which are angry at their language on immigration and difficult pole ratings, amidst fear of rebellion from backbenchers on profit cuts.
Sir Keir told the Commons during the Prime Minister’s questions: “I believe that people are still feeling pressure of living crisis including pensioners.
“As the economy improves, we want to ensure that people feel those reforms in their days because their lives move forward. That is why we want to ensure that, as we move forward, more pensioners deserve winter fuel payments.”
But on the left side of the party, Labor MPs, including Ian Lavari and Zara Sultana, urged their leaders to go further and complete the deduction, while Welsh’s first minister Barona Elun asked Morgan to “wanted to get more pensioners to get more pensioners.
When she took over in the last summer, the policy was one of the first announcements by Ms. Reeves.
Chancellor’s colleagues said that he and Sir Kir were “united” on U-turn, but the fact that the PM was an announcement of the declaration-by-effectively the issue-would speculate the fuel about his future in the-Shumika.
Many critics of Ms. Reeves accused her on a policy that had been jumping about the Treasury for years, but was rejected by her predecessors in the job.
Downing Street later indicated that budget changes would be underlined in autumn. But they will not be drawn on whether it means more pensioners will get money in time for this coming winter.
Conservative leader Kemi badenoch The branded head Kir “desperate” and that the U-turn was “unavoidable”.
He also warned that if the minister waited till the budget of autumn to determine the details, it would have been “too late”.
“If he is waiting till the budget, it means that people are going to lose their winter fuel payments for another year,” he said.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davi pressured Sir Keir to reverse the cut for a complete payment.
Earlier, experienced labor MP Diane Abbott The policy was compared to the controversial voting of Margaret Thatcher as “cut” for voters.
Caroline Abraham, age from the UK, said that the government’s winter fuel cuts were “disappeared by money due to low income in many pensioners, they could not just take the risk of losing”.
He said that his organization saw that “a very important number of older people had also frightened to turn on their heating, when it was cold, life was completely unhappy for him and put their health at risk”. He said: “If nothing changes, there is a danger of being equally bad in the next winter”.
Amy Dodge of Independent Edge said that, such as people face high bills and rising inflation, pensioners on low income “require assurance that they will be supported to heat their home next winter and beyond”.
Ruth Curtis, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation Think Tank, said the announcement “huge question” leaves. He said that a “sensible” solution would be to support pensioners receiving housing and disability benefits, as well as on pension credit.
“It is cheap at £ 300m and will benefit more than a million families,” he said.
Partial U-turn came a few hours after a memo was leaked Daily telegraph The Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rener, was shown, pushed to a radical combination of tax hike to avoid the need for further cuts in spending.
In a memorandum to the Chancellor before the spring statement of March, he suggested restoring pension life allowance and replacing dividends.
Any 10 is facing a possible rebellion from Labor MPs next month, when difficult welfare deductions including disability payments are due to voting in the House of Commons.
More than 100 labor MPs have already signed a letter, which raise their concerns about changes.
Sir Keer also faced a fierce backlash from within his party as he tried to deal with the threat arising out by Mr. Faraj with a rift on immigration last week. His own MPs joined Compared to trade unions and charities After claiming, his language is far away and his language with Hanok Powell Britain’s risk becomes “island of strangers” due to migration.
