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Ed Miliband defends winter fuel payment U-turn

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Energy Secretary Ed Miliband defends Chancellor Rachel Reeves' original decision to cut winter fuel payment.

He said she had to act to stop the economy "going off a cliff" last summer .

Miliband said the move would cost "a relatively small amount of money" but the Conservatives said ministers did not know how it would be funded.

Last July , the government announced it would withdraw the payment from 10 million pensioners.

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