The chancellor said it was right to accept the public sector pay review bodies’ recommendations, even if the recommendations were for above-inflation rises
Reeves is asked about a letter sent by Darren Jones, the then shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, to the Treasury in November 2023 suggesting it would be wrong to means-test the winter fuel payment.
Reeves says Labour has had to take decisions it did not want to take.
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