UK government passes vote to restrict winter fuel payments

Just one Labour MP – Jon Trickett – rebelled against the government in a House of Commons vote on plans to means test the winter fuel payment to pensioners.

The government won the vote with 348 votes in favour to 228 against, while some MPs – including 53 Labour members – abstained on the ballot, meaning they did not cast a vote.

However, it is not immediately apparent which MPs abstained on the Conservative motion on principle and who were unable to vote due to other commitments outside of Parliament.

Several Labour MPs who were already suspended for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap earlier this summer also backed restoring the winter fuel allowance to all pensioners.

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