Starmer's Winter Fuel U-Turn Won’t Save Labour
The Jon Gaunt Show
Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Starmer's Winter Fuel U-Turn Won’t Save Labour
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Rachel Reeves has dramatically reversed Labour's decision to cut the Winter Fuel Allowance, restoring it for nearly 9 million pensioners. But is this a genuine rethink—or a panic move after public backlash and damaging local election results?
🔥 Jon Gaunt says this last-minute U-turn won’t save Keir Starmer. In power just 10 months, Starmer's Labour government has faced wave after wave of controversy—from failing to stop the small boats, to ignoring farmers, to labeling Southport protestors as 'far-right thugs'. And many are calling him out for broken promises on Brexit and EU alignment.
🤔 Should Starmer and Reeves have apologised instead of spinning this as a policy "rethink"?
👎 Is Starmer seen as too much of a human rights lawyer, and not enough of a leader?
⚠️ Is Labour heading for a meltdown?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. Good evening and welcome to the John Gant live show. I hope you're going to join in tonight. There's loads and loads to talk about. We're going to talk about Stama. He's under fire again via Rachel Reeves. This time it's over-humiliating. |
| 0:22.4 | That's the only word to describe it. |
| 0:24.1 | A humiliating U-turn on the winter fuel allowance. |
| 0:28.2 | He stole that money off pensioners, |
| 0:30.1 | and they complained. |
| 0:32.2 | Everybody complained. |
| 0:33.7 | He wasn't going to move, |
| 0:34.9 | but then unlike Mrs Thatcher, |
| 0:37.3 | this prime minister was for turning. |
| 0:40.2 | Just 10 months into power, and Labour is already retreating on policies, which they didn't even campaign on. |
| 0:49.0 | This wasn't even in the manifesto. |
| 0:52.6 | Rachel Reeves now has reinstated the fuel payments for about 9 million pensioners. |
| 1:00.2 | That's about a million are going to be missing out on it. |
| 1:02.9 | She hasn't said how it's going to work because obviously they're going to have to be |
| 1:06.8 | means tested. |
| 1:08.0 | It's going to work within the tax system evidently. |
| 1:11.4 | Experts are now saying, instead of saving the billions that she thought she would, |
| 1:16.8 | it'd be lucky to save 400 million. So these incompetent six-formers who are running our country |
| 1:24.6 | have completely cocked this one up the public backlash has been massive |
| 1:32.6 | and then of course there was the bruising set of election results when Nigel farage literally |
| 1:40.3 | metaphorically slapped kirstarmes's bottom red raw, careful. |
| 1:47.0 | So the question I want to ask, which to make sure you won't, |
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