MPs vote in favour of winter fuel payment cut

MPs vote in favour of winter fuel payment cut
Sir Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest revolt of his premiership after dozens of Labour MPs defied him over plans to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners.

More than 50 Labour MPs did not vote during a Conservative-led motion to reinstate the payments, despite Starmer ordering his MPs to oppose it.

However, Labour were successful in preventing their backbenchers from supporting the motion with only Jon Trickett, the MP for Hemsworth and a former shadow cabinet minister under Jeremy Corbyn, openly defying Starmer and voting with the opposition.

In total 53 Labour MPs refrained from voting on the measure. Although some, such as the Northern Ireland secretary Hilary Benn, would have been given permission to miss the vote for reasons such as official business elsewhere, many others abstained on principle.

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