Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs that axing allowance for all but poorest pensioners will help plug £22bn hole in finances

Chancellor tells meeting of parliamentary Labour party there will be more difficult decisions to come

Britain would have faced a run on the pound, higher interest rates and an economic crunch had Chancellor Rachel Reeves not scrapped a winter fuel...

Britain would have faced a run on the pound, higher interest rates and an economic crunch had Chancellor Rachel Reeves not scrapped a winter fuel...

When the UK voted the Labour Party into office at the beginning of July, Keir Starmer told us they’d inherited the worst economic circumstances...

When the UK voted the Labour Party into office at the beginning of July, Keir Starmer told us they’d inherited the worst economic circumstances...

Furore over cuts to the pensioner benefit is all the more potent when the left, right and centre can all find reasons to oppose the policy

Furore over cuts to the pensioner benefit is all the more potent when the left, right and centre can all find reasons to oppose the policy

The leader of the House of Commons said she could not see a scenario in which Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped the policy.