Conservative motion to strike down plan is defeated but more than 50 Labour MPs abstain
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MPs have voted to remove the winter fuel allowance from all but the poorest pensioners, with a significant number of Labour MPs abstaining.
After a sometimes bad-tempered Commons debate, a Conservative motion to strike down the move was defeated by 348 votes to 228. Just one Labour MP, Jon Trickett, voted for the opposition motion but 53 abstained – at the higher end of predictions.
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