Chancellor Rachel Reeves stuck the knife in just weeks after the election, instantly stripping 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel payment.

Yet in 2017, Labour had produced research showing that scrapping the payment would kill 4,000 pensioners every winter.

How can Reeves live with herself knowing that?

She then twisted the blade by axing the proposed £86,000 cap on social care costs. Tens of thousands of older people will now be forced to sell their homes to cover care fees.

Neither of…