Commons leader (and Oasis fan) Lucy Powell said Labour 'do look back in anger' at the economy they inherited as she defended making savings by cutting the winter fuel allowance.
The economy could have crashed had the government not found savings by cutting winter fuel payments for pensioners, a minister has said. Lucy Powell told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips that the loss of the benefit, which will now be means tested, was necessary because of a '£22bn blackhole' left behind by the Conservatives.
'And that's why we've had to make some of these really difficult decisions around means testing the winter payment so that the poorest pensioners continue to receive it but some of the wealthiest pensioners won't.
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