Yahoo News How your MP voted as Labour cut winter fuel payment
An attempt by opposition and rebel MPs to block the winter fuel payment cut has failed in the House of Commons. The controversial plan to remove the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners is set to go ahead following today's vote.
New Stafford MP Leigh Ingham was one of 53 Labour MPs who did not turn up to vote on the motion today. One Labour MP voted in favour of the Tory motion to scrap the cut — Jon Trickett of Normanton and Hemsworth — who said he could not ‘in good conscience’ support the government.
The region's Labour MPs all voted against the motion and with the government, including Dr Allison Gardner, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South; Gareth Snell, MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central; David Williams, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North; Adam Jogee, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme; and Sarah Russell, MP for Congleton.
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North Staffordshire's two Tories — Staffordshire Moorlands MP Dame Karen Bradley, and Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP Sir Gavin Williams — voted for the amendment and against the government.
Our gadget allows you to see how your MP voted. It shows if an MP voted FOR the Tory amendment which aimed to stop the cut or supported Sir Keir Starmer by voting against the proposal.
