Tory leader Kemi Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch has hit out at her critics who have torn into her latest attempt to question Keir Starmer in the Commons.

The Tory leader came under fire during prime minister’s questions on Wednesday after she appeared to miss Starmer’s key admission that Labour were U-turning on their changes to winter fuel payments.

The government sparked major backlash – including from their own backbenchers – when they axed the £300 payment for 10 million pensioners in the autumn Budget.

So it was a significant moment when the PM unexpectedly told a Labour backbencher on Wednesday that the government now wants to make more pensioners eligible for the scheme.

His remarks even prompted a major reaction from across the House.

Moments later, the leader of the opposition asked Starmer a very similar question: “Is he planning to U-turn........

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