Politics Weekly Westminster: Winter fuel payments test for Labour
Politics Weekly UK
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. But let me say this clearly and unequivocally. |
| 0:15.0 | Nigel Farage isn't a friend of the working class. |
| 0:18.5 | He's a fraud. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't think anybody wants to see this proposal around the Winterfield Allowance brought in. |
| 0:25.6 | Until we wake up and Kimmy Badenock doesn't exist anymore, I don't wish ill of her, I just wish |
| 0:31.1 | her to shut up. |
| 0:32.1 | No, I will not shut up. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Pippa Carrera and I'm Kiran Stacy. |
| 0:36.0 | You're listening to Politics Weekly Westminster for the Guardian. |
| 0:39.0 | Pippa, we've got big votes in the Commons this week we've got the PM going off on foreign trips |
| 0:46.2 | We've got party conferences starting well now |
| 0:50.2 | Feels like politics is back it does gradually we've been kind of ramping up over the |
| 0:54.4 | last week or so haven't we from the summer holidays and we also have this |
| 0:58.9 | week the first serious test of resolve on curious starmus tough decisions which we've talked |
| 1:05.0 | about before and we've heard so much about over the last few days when it comes to |
| 1:08.8 | the winter fuel payment row. So we've got this vote on Tuesday. The vote as far as I can |
| 1:14.8 | tell doesn't really mean anything. I mean apart from anything else the government's |
| 1:17.3 | got a big enough majority to win it and anyway this is a vote this is a |
| 1:22.2 | decision that gets made at a budget, really. |
| 1:24.2 | It's not something that Parliament would normally vote on. |
| 1:26.8 | But I guess this is a vote for the Labour Party to show whether or not it's united on some of the tough things it has to do, you know, now |
| 1:35.2 | that it's in government. And we were both, I think quite surprised when our |
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