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co. UK. Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots. I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by

Katie balls and Freys and Nelson. Now Katie at momento is growing behind the

rebellion on Winter Fuel Allowance. The numbers reported in the Guardian today as being up to 50 the So you've had Liz Kendall, the work and pension secretary calling around MPs.

As I've reported Rachel Reeves was meeting with MPs last week to try and explain to them

effectively why she thinks she needs to do this cut and to put it into the context with a wider economic

picture which she's saying is pretty difficult and you know I think the sense that this is one

difficult decision but there's more coming in the budget and then actually the spending review next Easter is probably going to be perhaps the most uncomfortable of them all, given those 19 billion pounds of cuts already priced into that.

So I think there's a general effort from the government to try and bring

MPs on the side while also trying to make clear that perhaps this is just the taste of things

to come. Not the most appetizing message to lend, but of course as you say the

rebellion is heating up because you have the TUC so the Trade Union Congress this

week and the unions have started to come out and say this is a cruel cut, Kirsdamah, you need to change course.

Kirskamah is giving a speech at the TUC, so you can imagine some of the unions

and they're really trying to press that point to him when he is when he is there and then you have

you had an early day motion last week with some new labor MPs on it who designed

it saying you know suggesting a rethink is Rachel Reeves about to have a rethink? Well, she's appearing for the

P.L. later today in the weekly Monday meeting the Labour Party has. So clearly it's going to have a message

to them. You can expect a few tricky questions, I would imagine,

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