Keir Starmer announced today that he will ‘loosen the eligibility criteria’ for winter fuel payment.

This is a massive u-turn and one that would not have happened without the campaigns and protests against this and other welfare benefit cuts. It is not enough but it is a start and shows that protest does work. We must now increase the pressure on the government to ensure that winter fuel payments are returned to all pensioners, that the cuts to disability benefits are reversed and that the benefit cap and 2 child cap are abolished.

It is even more important that we take to the streets of London on June 7th in our hundred of thousands to demand an end to cuts and austerity.

Join the fightback! See you on the streets!