内容摘要："You definitely feel that sense of history and that sense of continuity…

"You definitely feel that sense of history and that sense of continuity…

"By the time the traffic started moving it was chaos, as frustrated drivers looked for any which way to get out of the car park," he said."The car park attendants did their best but there weren't enough of them to marshal so many lines of traffic.

"It took two hours for us to get out. Some people I spoke to said they had been waiting even longer."The government's decision to largely reverse its cuts to winter fuel payments has raised questions about its spending and savings plans - and its fiscal rules.BBC Verify has been looking at the the key numbers.

At the time Labour won the 2024 general election, the Department for Work and Pensions wasthat 10.8 million pensioners in England and Wales would be eligible for winter fuel payments in 2024-25.

The payments are worth either £200 or £300 per household.

The new government, in order to save money, decided that only pensioners in receipt of pension credit (a separate benefit aimed at low-income pensioners) would receive winter fuel payments that winter - and said that would reduce the number of individual recipients to 1.5 million.The Department of Health and Social Care, covering England, said the pay rise on the table was the second above inflation increase for NHS staff in the last 10 months.

"We've accepted the pay recommendations in full because we value every NHS professional's contribution to patient care," a spokesperson said."We can't undo a decade and a half of neglect in less than a year, but together with NHS staff this government is rebuilding their pay and rebuilding our health service."

Resident doctors in England are already being balloted on strike action over pay. Other health unions are organising votes on the pay awards.All this may cast a shadow over a government 10-year plan for the NHS in England due in the next few weeks.