Minister insists winter gas cost cuts is not going to be ‘watered down’

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook has insisted that plans to means check winter gas funds is not going to be watered down after 53 Labour MPs didn’t vote on the movement.

Asked whether or not Labour will change the proposal within the wake of this, Mr Pennycook instructed Sky News: "We’re not going to water down that policy, we think it’s the right decision to make."

He added: "It’s a decision we took with a heavy heart, we never expected to do it."

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