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It is a tough decision not to allow the people on universal credit to have more than two children. Why? Why have the Government already decided to continue with the two siblings decision? They have done so already. Why have the Government already decided to punish old-age pensioners? The one thing that Gordon Brown did, way back in 1997 when he introduced this winter fuel payment system, was to introduce a rare universal benefit for all elderly people. It is a very rare thing to be able to do that and to be able to afford it—and for all these years we have afforded it. All these years, we have afforded it and, if anything, we may not be as rich as we would like to be, but we are not poorer than we were in 1997.