Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott says the government may have won the vote to remove Winter Fuel Allowance for some pensioners but "comprehensively" lost the argument. The plan to means test the payment cleared the Commons on Tuesday with just one Labour rebel voting against it but dozens of MPs on the government benches were missing in action.

The actress recalled in an interview with the Radio Times that she put her foot down and refused to shoot the intimate scene after the director unexpectedly decided to change it from an off-screen to an on-screen moment. "I remember being on a set once and the director said, 'You're going to s**g on the bed.' And I said, 'No, this scene was written for us to be off screen, so you just hear the noises. I'd never have accepted the role if it was going to be filmed.'"