Winter Fuel of Discontent

Is this the week that things started to get a little difficult for the new government?

 

Prisoners have been released early - something which is never going to guarantee good headlines - and the row about the decision to cut winter fuel payments is not going away.

 

So are the attacks deserved? Will the government manage to fend them off - or at least take the blows and move on? And what does this all mean for Keir Starmer? 

 

Plus: Select committee chair elections, Conservative leadership contest, and the Liberal Democrat conference.

 

With Emma Norris, Cath Haddon, Gemma Tetlow and Cassia Rowland, plus guest Aubrey Allegretti, chief political correspondent for The Times.

 

Produced by Robin Leeburn for Podmasters.

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