Will Labour’s cold winter of cuts be worth it?
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, it's a policy that no Labour MP likes. |
| 0:12.0 | So why did most of them vote to cut winter fuel payments? |
| 0:17.0 | I was 17 years old when I unexpectedly had heard that my father had prostate cancer. |
| 0:28.0 | I always think that there's strength in coming together as a community to share, to heal and to release. |
| 0:34.0 | The reason why I'm excited to join the coffee morning today is because I'll be |
| 0:38.6 | surrounded by fellow Muslim women. |
| 0:41.0 | Communities are doing Macmillan Coffee Morning. |
| 0:43.8 | Follow their stories at the Guardian.com |
| 0:46.1 | forward slash Get Together for Goods. |
| 0:48.4 | This message was paid for by Macmillan Cancer Support. Since becoming Prime Minister two months ago, Kiestarma has told us over and over. He's going to have to make some tough decisions |
| 1:06.5 | to get the economy back on track. Look in relation to the tough decisions we're going to have to take the tough |
| 1:12.4 | decisions and take them early and we will. |
| 1:15.0 | These tough decisions have included harsh punishments for MPs who fail to toe the party line. |
| 1:20.0 | Seven Labour MPs who was suspended from the party last night, the whip's been taken away from them for six months by Sir Kir Starma for voting against the government to call for the scrapping of the two child benefit cap. |
| 1:31.0 | First there was an opposition vote to scrap the two-child limit on welfare, which Starma insisted |
| 1:36.8 | the country couldn't afford. |
| 1:38.9 | But for me, taking a stand against child poverty, one of the biggest scourges in the country which affects |
| 1:43.4 | 4.3 million children is something that I'm very proud to have stood my ground on. |
| 1:49.2 | And then yesterday afternoon, Labour MPs had another difficult choice to make. |
| 1:53.6 | It's worth saying that no Labour MP is happy about this, no Labour MP is comfortable with it. |
| 1:59.3 | It was a vote on Labour's decision to scrap the universal winter fuel allowance for pensioners, one of Tony Blair's |
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