HUNDREDS of thousands of Scotland’s poorest people are being hit by Labour’s attack on the winter fuel allowance and retention of the two-child benefit cap, the SNP warned today.

The party said 900,000 Scottish pensioners had been “robbed” of their heating payments while energy bills have soared by £149.

It also accused the Westminster government of “cancelling Christmas for Scotland’s most vulnerable children” by maintaining the two-child benefit cap, which the Tories introduced seven years ago.