Downing Street Rules Reduction of Winter Fuel Pay

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Downing Street, despite the great staff in the UK’s local elections in the UK’s local elections, despite the great staff of the party’s failures, stopped becoming winter fuel reserves.

Many Labor MPs, Nigel Farage’s party said he lives in the loss of parliament Reform UK Earnings in Thursday’s elections, because the welfare changes, especially the winter fuel payment reduction.

However, the government insisted on Tuesday that this was the financial “black hole” of the previous conservative government, which has not refused to emollient or politics.

“There will be no change to government policy,” he said.

Baroness Morgan, Wales’s first minister and leader of Wales, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s policy to change the course on politics, called on the disability to other benefits.

“In the winter, the fuel allowance is something that shields and I hope that the British government will re-think of this policy,” Morgan said in a speech in Cardiff.

Added to the other Welfare Reforms “By the British government,” We have caused serious concern here, where more people are more dependent on the benefits of man than they are elsewhere. ”

Mike Amesbury, former deputies for the workers and Helsby, which lost to only six votes in the last week, said the government made a very political mistake.

“Winter fuel is a clear thing, but the decline in the line is the payments of personal independence,” he said.

Amesbury, who resigned from where he sat accused of punching a facilityThe current MPs called for the administration to listen to voters and “think about it.”

Luke Tryl, a joint group, which is a survey group, will save about $ 1.5 billion a year, which is up to $ 1.5 billion, which is up to winter fuel payments – the government’s most popular policy and the “highest cut”.

Louise Haigh, the cabinet minister until the winter, called on Starmer’s financial rules to the government and to collect taxes for the “serious investment program”.

However, Downing Street, the cuts in the subsidy are an important part of the attempts to stabilize public finances, he said.

“The test means winter fuel payments, but it was what we had to do to restore economic stability and prepare public finances,” he said. “And only the economic stability we can do is make difficult decisions to prioritize … For example (pensions) triple lock.”

Health Secretary Wes Streeting, when many voters say many voters to the BBC, it releases the government’s expenses for other public services.