Downg Street deserves the opposite of fuel payment discounts in the winter

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Downing Street has excluded inverse cuts in winter fuel allowances for 10 colored retirees, although the large work numbers blame the policy of partisan setbacks in local elections in England last week.

Many Labor Party representatives said their party He suffered from the council losses While Nigel Farage’s Report UK has made gains in Thursday elections due to luxury changes, especially fuel payment discounts in the winter.

But on Tuesday, the government insisted that it does not plan either to reduce or abandon policy, which was presented by Chancellor Rachel Reeves last year as an attempt to deliver the financial “black hole” left by the previous conservative government.

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

Baroneh raised Morgan, the first Wales minister and Wales leader, on Tuesday, to urge Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer to change the path on politics as well as the reforms that will strike persons with disabilities.

“The reduction in the fuel allowance in the winter is something that comes again and again, and I hope that the UK government will rethink this policy,” Morgan said in a speech in Cardiff.

She added that other Welfare repairs The UK government was “causing severe concern here, as we have more people who depend on the advantages of deficit from anywhere.”

Mike Amesberry, a former deputy of Roncorne and Hildbe, who was lost by the Labor Party for reform with only six votes last week, said the government made many political mistakes.

He said in reference to the main deficit allocations: “Winter fuel is a clear one, but going down to the line is personal independence payments.”

Amisbury, who resigned from his seat after he was I condemn the componentThe current deputies called for the leadership of the Labor Party to listen to the voters and “think again about this.”

Luke Tryl, More More CEO of the United Kingdom, the polling group, said the winter fuel payments-which will provide about 1.5 billion pounds annually-was the policy of the most popular government and has the “highest pieces” of the public.

Labor Representative Louise Hai, who was a minister in the cabinet until the winter, urged Starmer to drop the financial rules imposed by the government and raise taxes to pay the price of a “dangerous investment program”.

But Downing Street said that the discounts in support were an essential part of the ministers’ attempts to achieve stability in public financial affairs.

No. 10 said: “It was a difficult decision to mean testing fuel payments in the winter, but what we had to do to restore economic stability and prepare public financial resources.” “And only by making difficult decisions to determine the priorities of economic stability that we can do politics … such as triple lock (pensions).”

Health Secretary Wes Stretting BBC told that although many voters are “not happy”, he would liberate government spending on other public services.