Starmer ‘Absolutely Clear’ Pensioner Winter Fuel Allowance Needs to Be Cut

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he stands by his decision to put forward plans cutting access to Winter Fuel Payments for millions of pensioners. Starmer told the BBC on Sunday that he was “absolutely clear in [his] own mind” that restricting the benefit was necessary to fix the economy and enable the new Labour government to fulfil its election pledges to improve public services and deal with crime and immigration. The prime minister said, “We can’t bring about that change if we don’t fix the fundamentals and stabilise our economy.” “Equally clear in my mind, in order to deliver the change which we will deliver, we have to fix the foundations now. And that’s tough decisions,” he said on “Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.”...