Triple Lock Pensions and Winter Fuel Payments To Stay

Conservative plans to scrap the state pension triple lock and means test winter fuel payouts have been scrapped under the party's deal with the Democratic Unionist Party.

Neither of the policies was mentioned in last week's Queen's Speech, and both were jettisoned by the Tories to win support from the Northern Ireland party in getting key legislation through parliament.

'Both parties have agreed that there will be no change to the pensions triple lock and the universal nature of the Winter Fuel Allowance,' according to the three-page 'confidence and supply' agreement between the parties.