MPs vote to chop Winter Fuel Payments for hundreds of thousands of pensioners
MPs have voted to chop the winter gasoline cost for all however the nation’s poorest pensioners.
A Tory transfer to axe the reduce was defeated by 348 to 228 votes – a majority of 120.
The transfer – which is able to see round 10 million individuals lose the cost of as much as £300 to assist with power prices – has been defended by Labour, who stated "tough decisions" have to be made in mild of the £22bn "black hole" in public funds.
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