Starmer defends winter fuel cut despite anger among Labour MPs

BBC Question Time's Fiona Bruce skewers Labour minister with winter fuel jibe

Labour minister grilled over winter fuel allowance axe during BBC Question Time.

Pressure builds on Starmer to reverse winter fuel cuts after local election

Labour lost the previously safe Runcorn and Helsby constituency in a by-election and almost 200 councillors as Nigel Farage’s Reform UK made sweeping gains

Kier Starmer rules out winter fuel payments U-turn

Labour MPs have urged the Prime Minister to change course as campaigners warned of the electoral consequences of failing to restore payments

Keir Starmer just gave the most appalling response to spiralling inequality

At Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) on Wednesday 7 May, Lib Dem MP Roz Savage challenged Labour Party PM Keir Starmer on inequality: Under the Conservatives, inequality has surged with now over 14 million people… living in poverty while the richest 1% see their incomes soar. Of the developed countries we are now the ninth most unequal. Will the prime minister listen to the Liberal Democrats, the public and many of his own backbenchers and commi…

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on track? Plus lessons Labour could learn from Down Under

In MetroTalk: Readers weigh in on Reform’s rise, the definition of free speech, May Day and get pedantic over grammar. (Picture: Benjamin Cremel – Pool/Getty Images) Do you agree with our readers? Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments. Labour's going faster but is it in the wrong direction? After Labour’s disastrous local election results last week – largely to the benefit of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK –…

Keir Starmer warned as winter fuel and welfare cuts likened to Thatcher's poll tax - Politics.co.uk

Diane Abbott has urged the prime minister to drop his government’s winter fuel payment cuts and welfare reforms, which she warned could have a political effect akin to Margaret Thatcher’s poll tax. The Labour MP, who served as shadow home secretary during Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as opposition leader, insisted it was “not too late” to... Read more »