Unite aims to force vote on winter fuel payment at Labour conference

Union motion to condemn cut could prove embarrassing for PM at party’s first gathering since taking power

Unite will attempt to force a vote at Labour conference to reverse the winter fuel allowance cuts, in what could be an embarrassing row in Liverpool for Keir Starmer’s first conference in government.

Unite, a strong critic of Starmer, is hoping to attract the backing of the largest union, Unison, for the motion to condemn the cut the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said was necessary along with other measures because of the state of Labour’s fiscal inheritance.