Turn Up The Heat

Cabinet Ministers are briefing off the record that means-testing the winter fuel payment will lead to deaths. The unions have come out against it; the claim that it was necessary to meet the pay claims always did assume basic innumeracy.

The report of the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee is devastating, and Ros Altmann has tabled a fatal motion in that chamber. Apparently, "It is highly unlikely to pass." But do you know what would change that? If enough of them voted for it.