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11 September 2024

PMQs review: Starmer struggles to explain winter fuel cut

The political pain for Labour is not going away – if only the leaderless Conservatives could exploit it.

By Rachel Cunliffe

We learned two important things from today’s session of Prime Minister’s Questions – the second of the parliamentary term, and the last before the House rises again tomorrow for the conference season recess.

The first is that the way the winter fuel allowance has been withdrawn as a universal benefit to all pensioners is still causing major trouble for Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves.

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