Starmer used PMQs to announce that the government is reviewing the winter fuel cuts:
“We want to ensure that as we go forward more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payments. We will only make decisions we can afford that is why we will look at that as part of a fiscal event.”
A blow to Reeves…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”