Recent winters have been tough for pensioners, but they won’t have anything on this one. All the cost-of-living payments that former Tory PM Rishi Sunak approved have expired, while chancellor Rachel Reeves has scrapped the Winter Fuel Payment for 10 million pensioners.

Labour’s own research shows that this will plunge 100,000 pensioners into fuel poverty. Charities warn 4,000 could die as a result.

PM Keir Starmer and Reeves refuse to backtrack, despite the energy cap jumping in October and…