DUP deal forces Tories to U-turn on triple lock

No change to winter fuel payment

Hannah Godfrey
clock • 2 min read

The triple lock will stay along with winter fuel payments as a result of the Conservative party's deal with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), it has been confirmed.

A confidence and supply agreement published Monday morning said: "Both parties have agreed that there will be no change to the pensions triple lock and the universal nature of the winter fuel payment." The decision on keeping the triple lock forms a U-turn by the Conservative party, which campaigned to scrap the triple lock by the end of 2020 and begin to means test winter fuel payments in this year's general election. However a surprise hung parliament forced the Conservatives to seek backing from the Northern Irish party after they failed to win an overall majority in the June elect...

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