Rachel Reeves has defended claiming expenses for energy bills at her second home after the Government’s plans to scale back winter fuel payments for pensioners cleared the Commons. The policy, which will strip winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners, is set to go ahead despite a revolt by Labour MPs and warnings about the impact it will have on the elderly. The Chancellor has insisted it is right to means-test the benefit, worth up to £300, in order to address the “black hole” in the public finances. Records of the Chancellor’s energy bill claims show that she claimed back more than £3,000 over five years. “Being a constituency MP means that you have to have a house in London as well as, of course, living in the constituency, and that’s the same for all MPs. Those are long-standing rules,” she told GB News after being asked if it was fair for taxpayers to pick up the bill to heat her second home. The Chancellor was also asked whether the savings from the cut to winter fuel payment would be wiped out if all 800,000 pensioners who have not yet signed up for the pension credit did so. She did...