Watch live as Rachel Reeves addresses the Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool on Monday, 23. In her first party conference speech as chancellor, she is expected to insist that “tough decisions” are needed with public finances and will attempt to persuade her critics that there will be “no return to austerity”.

Rachel Reeves defended winter fuel cuts as the “right decision” and insisted pensioners most in need will still receive help. In a speech to the Labour conference that was disrupted by hecklers, the Chancellor said she would not “duck” difficult decisions.

The Labour conference in Liverpool this week should have been a victory party, but Starmer and Rachel Reeves were put under pressure.

Watch live as Rachel Reeves addresses the Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool on Monday, 23. In her first party conference speech as chancellor, she is expected to insist that “tough decisions” are needed with public finances and will attempt to persuade her critics that there will be “no return to austerity”.

Chancellor says £22bn gap in current spending budget and state pension rise meant she had to make decision on means-testing fuel payments. Early evening summary 18:20 Rachel Reeves has defended her decisions to cut the winter fuel allowance and abandon infrastructure projects as she argued the decisions taken in the early weeks of the Labour government would pave the way to a more optimistic economic future.

The Chancellor was also seeking to lift economic hopes in her speech to Labour’s conference after warning of tough choices ahead

Crowd boos winter fuel allowance debate delay ahead of Rachel Reeves’s speech - Reeves says cutting winter fuel allowance to the poorest pensioners was the right decision ahead of keynote speech in Li