Keir Starmer faces humiliation at Labour's conference as trade unions move to reverse the PM's cut to pensioners' winter fuel payments - as MP says she's 'sickened' by freebies row. Labour figures are reportedly braced to lose a conference vote.
Union leaders were last night manoeuvring to force a vote at Labour ’s annual conference calling for her to reverse plans to axe the payment to 10 million older people.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has come out fighting amid opposition to her cuts to winter fuel payments for pensioners ‘The essential precondition for business to invest with confidence and families to plan for the future. The mini-budget showed us that any plan for growth without stability only leads to ruin.’
And hinting that spending will rise in the future, she will say: ‘Stability, paired with reform, will forge the conditions for business to invest and consumers to spend with confidence. Growth is the challenge. And investment is the solution.’ ‘A Labour government has come in to make change and the first thing they do is pick the pockets of pensioners. I think there’s a problem with that.’
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