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Sunak grills Stamer on taking fuel payment from pensioners

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Sunak grills Stamer on taking fuel payment from pensioners

Sunak grills Stamer on taking fuel payment from pensioners

Former prime minister Rishi Sunak has challenged Sir Keir Starmer over plans to means test the Winter Fuel Allowance.

But during today’s PMQs, the prime minister said his government’s first job was to audit the books “and what we found was a £22bn black hole".

Report by Czubalam.

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