Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said the government did not relish the decision to cut winter fuel payments, but insists no pensioner will be worse off this winter than they were last winter. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We were the party that introduced the winter fuel allowance in the first place
00:04and this is not a decision that we relished or took lightly.
00:07We've done a lot of work to make sure that no pensioner will be worse off this winter
00:11than they were last winter. The scheduling of votes is a matter for the conference
00:16arrangement committee who are elected from right across our movement to make those arrangements.
00:22But look, we're not shying away from the difficult debates here.
00:25The Chancellor said today on stage that there will be people who don't agree with every decision
00:30that she makes but she was elected, as we all were, on a very clear mandate to end the Tory
00:36chaos and instability because if you don't do that it's working class people in our country
00:42who pay the heaviest price.