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Badenoch attacks PM over 'cruel' Winter Fuel Payment cuts in final PMQs of year


Published on 2024-12-18 12:01:14 - BBC
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  • It's also been a busy week - only hours ago, Chancellor Rachel Reeves defended the government's decision to reject compensation for women hit by changes to the state pension age after a backlash. Campaigners say 3.6 million women born in the 1950s were not properly informed of the rise in state pension age to bring them into line with men.
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