EXCLUSIVE: Richard Leonard said the cut should be reversed.
A former Scottish Labour leader has called on the UK Government to scrap plans to strip millions of pensioners of their winter fuel payment.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves caused anger in July when she announced plans to take up to £300 from ten million pensioners by means-testing the WFP. Leonard, who was Scottish Labour leader between 2017 and 2021, told the Record: 'For me the treatment of our older citizens is a test of our values as a society. We know the oldest pensioners are the poorest pensioners: many of them older women with no occupational pensions. And we know that providing universal support to reach everyone who needs it is not only morally right, it is much cheaper than means testing.
SNP MP Chris Law said: "No matter how many Scottish Labour MPs were elected they neither have the stomach or the backbone to stand up for Scotland's pensioners. He added: "Scottish Labour MPs also represent some of the coldest parts of the UK, yet they will stand aside and do nothing."
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