• Labour is right to ditch the winter fuel allowance – it isn’t ‘robbing’ old people | Polly Toynbee

    Scrapping the so far universal benefit for millions of pensioners means money can be diverted to those who need it mostThat sounded like a totemic cut, one that everyone could understand. She cut old folk’s winter fuel allowance! Is it like Margaret Thatcher, milk snatcher, abolishing free school milk? No, not at all. In the budget, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will need to make sure that poorer pensioners are better protected with improvements to pension credit, but the winter fuel paym

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