Rachel Reeves shouldn’t U-turn on winter fuel cuts
It would be a dangerous risk for a high-borrowing government to bow to political pressure.
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David Gauke
David Gauke is the former justice secretary and was MP for South West Hertfordshire from 2005 to 2019.
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