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Labour could review other benefit cuts after winter fuel U-turn, sources say

Sources say improved economic landscape may lead to two-child benefit cap and health and disability cuts being revisited

Keir Starmer has announced a partial U-turn that would make more pensioners eligible for winter fuel payments as government figures opened the door to more tweaks to controversial policies.

After a major backlash against one of the most unpopular measures announced by the Labour government, the prime minister indicated he would look again at the £11,500 threshold over which pensioners are no longer eligible for the allowance.

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