Delegates at the Labour conference voted against the UK government's decision to cut the winter fuel payment, a move criticized by trade unions as unfair and detrimental to vulnerable pensioners. Despite pleas from government ministers, the non-binding motion calling for the reversal of the cuts was narrowly carried.
Keir Starmer has suffered a blow after delegates at the Labour conference voted against the UK Government's decision to cut the winter fuel payment .
The motion, named An Economy for the Future, was narrowly carried by a show of hands in a rowdy hall in Liverpool despite pleas to vote against it by Government ministers. He says Labour should be doing the tough job of making the "ultra wealthy" tech giants and "making them pay their fair share". Liz Kendall, the Work and Pensions Secretary, told Labour members the new Government has “done more to help the poorest pensioners in the last two months than the Tories did in 14 years”.
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