Winter fuel of discontent

Is this the week that things started to get a little difficult for the new government?

Prisoners have been released early – something which is never going to guarantee good headlines – and the row about the decision to cut winter fuel payments is not going away.

So are the attacks deserved? Will the government manage to fend them off – or at least take the blows and move on? And what does this all mean for Keir Starmer?

Plus: Select committee chair elections, Conservative leadership contest, and the Liberal Democrat conference.