Keir Starmer said Rishi Sunak should apologise for £22bn black hole in government finances, after Sunak asked if Starmer would publish the impact assessment of Labour’s vote to remove the winter fuel payment.
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Sunak said the measure would affect ’10 million pensioners, including those on just £13,000 a year’. Starmer said mitigations were in place, and that the triple lock meant that increases in pensions would ‘outstrip any loss of payments’
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