DWP Winter Fuel Payments have been back in the commons, with increasing calls to reinstate it to all pensioners.

Rachel Reeves could become known as “the Chancellor who was brave enough to change course”, a senior Conservative whip has said, suggesting the payment should return.

Standing opposite Commons Leader Lucy Powell in Parliament, Joy Morrissey questioned Ms Reeves’ decision to “U-turn on non-doms” but not make alterations to budget decisions affecting pensioners and farmers.

Ms Powell defended the Government’s record on Thursday and described “another week of delivering the change that people voted for”, the day after Ms Reeves made a speech about economic growth at Siemens Healthineers in Oxfordshire.

Earlier in January, the Chancellor said in Davos that she would soften the proposed tax regime for people who live in the UK but are otherwise based elsewhere.

It means the temporary repatriation facility, a three-year........

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