25 May 2025, 08:00

By Jennifer Nadel

This week’s changes to the proposed Winter Fuel Payment cuts in the UK are welcome to all of us who support a more compassionate political agenda.

However, they are not enough.

The most vulnerable in Britain are still facing cuts to welfare and disability payments and the continuation of the two-child benefit cap, which former Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week blamed for a dramatic rise in child poverty in Britain. Abroad, the cuts to aid will result in the deaths of some of the most vulnerable people on the planet.

It’s time for the government to make protecting the most vulnerable its core priority. Compassionate policy cannot just be a hard-won reaction to polling or poor results at the local election, it must be the guiding principle.

Politics is about choices. Who and what do we choose to put first? What are the values that........

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