The shadow work and pensions secretary, Mel Stride, has urged Labour MPs to look to their conscience when they vote on cutting winter fuel payments for pensioners. "These measures, you know in your heart that these measures are wrong," he said during a debate in the Commons. You know in your heart that [Labour] has broken their promises and that these measures are going to lead to untold hardship for millions of elderly and vulnerable people right up and down this country" UK government has ‘no choice’ but to cut winter fuel payment, says minister UK politics live – latest updates