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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Hughes

INSANE: Downing street rejects welsh leader s call to rethink winter fuel policy - The Real Truth

First Minister and Labour leader in Wales Baroness Eluned Morgan delivers a keynote speech marking one year to the 2026 Senedd election at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff (Ben Birchall/PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer has rejected calls for a U-turn over the decision to strip winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners after Labour suffered a backlash at the ballot box.

Welsh First Minister Baroness Eluned Morgan said the decision to means-test the previously universal benefit was “something that comes up time and again” as she called for a “rethink”.

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