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welcome to copy house shots. I'm James Hill. I'm joined today by Katie

balls and Fraser Nelson.

Now Katie the big girl that's been going on in labour recently is about the winter fuel

allowance which the government plans to scrap largely for 10 million pensioners.

Next week there's going to be a vote on that.

Tell us more.

So this is on Tuesday and this week Labour Whips decided to allow a vote to both

the Tories and the Lib Dems have been pushing for one and it obviously comes as Rachel Reeves

announced that she would be cutting which of your allowance

unless you were eligible for pension credits and so forth. Before the summer

recess it was part of the big look at this huge fiscal black hole I found moment we're going to

take some immediate steps but then more steps in the budget so it was a spending cut there was

also some infrastructure projects that were cut and then the prospect of tax rises when we get to the budget at the end of October.

Since then, it's been quite clear that the backlash has been growing within the Labour

Parliamentary Party is also an area where I think every party is opposing

Labour's position. So you have reform saying it's unfair, you have the Tories saying

it's cruel, and you also have the Lib Dems going for Labour labour and the lived Dems I think is interesting because they are trying to work that way to provide opposition to the Labour government, but they really still see the Tories as their main opponents and they want to build.

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