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Winter fuel U-turn and spending review standoff – Politics Weekly Westminster

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

News, Politics

4.11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss Rachel Reeves’s U-turn on winter fuel payments: will it be enough to undo the damage done by the policy? Plus, they look ahead to this week’s spending review as negotiations with ministers go down to the wire. And after its chair dramatically quit the party only to return 48 hours later, what’s going on with Reform UK?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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From this winter, 9 million pensioners will now receive winter fuel payment.

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And because of changes we've made and the stability we've brought back to the economy,

1:30.0

we are able to increase that amount.

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Look, I've been working pretty much non-stop, virtually no days off.

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It's very difficult to keep going at that pace, and that exhaustion led to a poor decision.

1:41.7

I'm Pippa Carrera.

1:42.7

And I'm Kieran Stacey.

1:43.8

You're listening to Politics Weekly Westminster for The Guardian.

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