Downing Street Rule the reversal of winter fuel paid cuts

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Downing Street has ruled out reverse the cuts of the amount of winter fuel for 10 million pensioners, despite the fact that higher work figures blame the party’s mishap policy in local elections in England last week.

Many labor deputies have said that his party suffered loss of council while Nigel Farage UK reform He earned the Thursday’s election due to welfare changes, in particular fuel payment cuts in winter.

But the Government insisted on Tuesday not planning or softening or abandoning politics, which Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented last year as an attempt to connect the “black” hole “left by the previous conservative government.

“There will be no change in government policy,” he said number 10.

Baroness Elued Morgan, the Welsh Prime Minister and Leader, broke the ranks on Tuesday to urge Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to change the course of politics, as well as reforms to other benefits that will affect people with disabilities.

“Fuel reduction in winter is something that appears again and again, and I hope the United Kingdom government rethinks this policy,” Morgan said in a speech to Cardiff.

She added that other Welfare reforms The United Kingdom government was “a great concern here, where we have a higher number of people depending on the benefits of disability than elsewhere.”

Mike Amesbury, a former Runcorn and Helsby Member, who lost work to reform only six votes last week, said that the government had made too many political mistakes.

“Winter fuel is obvious, but getting out of the line is the payments of personal independence,” he said, referring to a key benefit for disability.

Amesbury, who gave up his place after he were convicted of punches to a componentHe asked the current deputies to say Labor’s leadership to listen to the electorate and “think again.”

Luke Tryl, executive director of More in Common UK, a electoral group, said that reducing fuel payments in winter – which would save about 1.5 million pounds a year – was the most unpopular policy of government and, by far, the “highest reduction” to the public.

Labor Member Louise High, who was the Minister of the Cabinet until winter, urged Starmer to let go of the Government’s self -imposed tax rules and increase taxes to pay a “serious investment program”.

But Downing Street said the cuts of the grant were an essential part of the attempts of ministers to stabilize public finances.

“It was a difficult decision to try to try winter fuel payments, but it was what we had to do to restore economic stability and prepare public finances,” said number 10. “And only the Government makes difficult decisions to prioritize the economic stability that we can make policies … such as triple blockade (pensions).”

Health Secretary Wes Streeting told the BBC that, while many voters are “not happy” with reduction, he would release government spending for other public services.