Winter fuel cut is so Labour ‘can pay their union paymasters’, says Tom Tugendhat

Ben Chapman

By Ben Chapman


Published: 01/10/2024

- 10:00

Tory leadership contender Tom Tugendhat has hit out at Labour for scrapping the Winter Fuel Payment for thousands of pensioners.

Speaking to Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster on GB News, he said the payment was taken away to help Labour “pay their union paymasters” as he laid into Keir Starmer’s Government.

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