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Starmer Risks Conference Rebuke on Winter Fuel Cut as Unite plans to force a vote
Leftwinger Mish Rahman loses seat on national executive
Sharon

SIR KEIR STARMER is facing a possible Labour rebuke over his deeply unpopular plans to cut winter fuel benefits for pensioners.

The party’s largest affiliate, Unite, will try to force a vote on the issue at Labour’s conference, which opens in Liverpool on Sunday.

Unite’s motion also calls for the scrapping of the Treasury’s fiscal rules, which have placed the new government’s spending plans in a strait-jacket.

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