Balls 'to axe rich OAP fuel payout'

Labour would axe winter fuel payments for hundreds of thousands of the UK's richest pensioners, Ed Balls will signal.

Support for better-off OAPs "can no longer be a priority" at a time of harsh public spending cuts, the shadow chancellor will declare. Mr Balls will hail the move to end universality as an example of the Opposition's willingness to show "iron discipline" if it takes power in 2015.
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