Episode 1971: The Papers - Monday September 9th 2024
The Richie Allen Show
The Richie Allen Show
4.7 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Richie reviews Monday's newspapers
Starmer facing rebellion over winter fuel payment cuts
NHS in decline for first time in 50 years
Right to online anonymity under threat
Impact of Covid lockdowns to disrupt learning for a decade
And more
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| 0:00.0 | Extra, Extra, read all about it now, oh baby. |
| 0:05.0 | Extra, extra, read all about it now. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, baby. |
| 0:15.0 | Good morning to you. |
| 0:17.0 | How are you? |
| 0:18.0 | It's Monday, the 9th of September 20. |
| 0:20.0 | 24. And well, it's autumnal here in Salford. |
| 0:24.6 | It is black, it's grey, it's black and grey, grey, it's wet, it's miserable. It isn't the best |
| 0:30.8 | start of the week now, weather-wise, but anyway, we have our health, as our grandparents would tell us, |
| 0:36.9 | time and again when we were children to the front pages of today's dailies here in the UK, starting with the eye paper. |
| 0:46.0 | Ministers consider plan for cheaper energy bills as Starmer faces winter fuel anger. |
| 0:53.7 | You will hear a lot about the winter fuel payments for |
| 0:57.8 | OAPs for seniors in the next couple of days because there will be a vote in Parliament. |
| 1:03.1 | The government wants to change the current system where every pensioner in the country, |
| 1:08.3 | regardless of their financial well-being, is given a winter fuel payment. |
| 1:14.6 | They want a means-tested, which will result in a lot of pensioners losing it. |
| 1:19.2 | Some MPs, some Labour MPs not happy, as many as 50, apparently, might rebel. |
| 1:24.0 | So the I paper is writing that ministers are considering a plan to give households on lower |
| 1:28.6 | incomes, cheaper gas and electricity bills. A social tariff for energy bills is being considered |
| 1:36.3 | as criticism mounts over the upcoming cut to winter fuel payments. Ten million pensioners will no |
| 1:43.0 | longer receive the payments and it will only be |
| 1:46.7 | available to those on low incomes who received certain benefits. A lot about that. Daily Express, |
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