The Welsh Labour government has defended cuts to winter fuel payments for pensioners. Conservative members of the Senedd called for the Welsh government to back their demands for winter fuel payments to be restored to all pensioners during a debate on Wednesday.

A pensioner who is more than £9,000 in debt says he will have to go without some essentials this winter as he loses his Winter Fuel Payment - and he's had enough of Labour already. Mark, 72, from Nottingham,

Scottish Labour has fallen well behind the SNP after cutting the Winter Fuel Payment, a poll has suggested. Analysis of the Opinium survey by polling guru John Curtice for The Times showed the SNP would remain Holyrood's largest party with 47 seats.