Rachel 'Freeze' Reeves claimed expenses for her household fuel bills.

 

Rachel "Freeze" Reeves

Labour's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel 'Freeze' Reeves, has removed the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners.

The Chancellor's decision to end the universal payment in England & Wales, means that only around 1.5 million people will now be eligible for the allowance, down from a 11.4 million. Reeves said that the cut will save the government around 1.5bn a year. As an MP, with two homes, Reeves claimed expenses from the taxpayer for both gas and electricity, despite receiving an annual salary of over 90K plus expenses.

Reeves's announcement in the Commons was met with cries of shame, but the austerity Chancellor replied, "If we can't afford it, we can't do it."

Meanwhile, Labour's energy secretary, Ed Milliband, seems to have a wad of cash. He's already announced that the Labour government will honour the pledge to give £11.6bn in overseas climate aid to developing countries.

When Reeves was running the DWP, she said that Labour would be tougher on cutting welfare spending than the Tories. She's also said that Labour is not the party for people on benefits, but the party of hard-working people.