Prime minister likely to face questions over winter fuel allowance as figures show state pension rising with earnings will lead to above-inflation increaseIf Keir Starmer does get asked about Labour’s plan to means-test the winter fuel allowance at PMQs, he may enjoying quoting Kemi Badenoch, the favourite in the tory leadership contest, in his defence.As the Telegraph’s Ben Riley-Smith reports, Badenoch proposed means-testing the benefit when she was first running for the Tory leadership in the summer of 2022.There is a lot of dead weight in how we run government,” said the shadow communities secretary in the clip from 2022. “I have people in my constituency telling me that they don’t need the winter fuel payments that we give them because they can afford it. Why do we not have a more sophisticated mechanism for means-testing? Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-09-04 08:50:11
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