Tory James Cleverly backed rich pensioners losing winter fuel payments

Oct. 9, 2024 - The Mirror

Tory leadership frontrunner James Cleverly backed 'focusing winter fuel payments to poorer pensioners' in a tweet in 2017. He called it 'the right answer, both fair and sustainable'James Cleverly previously suggested rich pensioners should lose their winter fuel payments - but has since criticised the Government for the “toxic idea”.

The Tory leadership frontrunner backed “focusing winter fuel payments to poorer pensioners” in a tweet in 2017, calling it “the right answer, both fair and sustainable”. The ex-PM was grilled at the time on her manifesto plan to means-test winter fuel payments - stripping it from millions of OAPs.

His rival Kemi Badenoch also supported the targeting of winter fuel payments in 2022, saying, “I have people in my constituency telling me that they don’t need the winter fuel payments that we give them because they can afford it”...