NICK Clegg has been slapped down by David Cameron over the Liberal Democrat leader's repeated declaration that better off pensioners should not get universal benefits like the Winter Fuel Allowance, worth up to £300.
Marking his fifth anniversary as his party's leader, the Deputy Prime Minister used a speech to break ranks with his Coalition partners and make clear the LibDems would "look again" at universal pensioner benefits.
He argued that welfare cash "should not be paid to those who do not need it".
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