Winter fuel allowance cut: who voted for this? – Politics Weekly UK
Politics Weekly UK
The Guardian
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. I think we really underestimate how actually easy it is to put together a coffee morning for your loved ones. |
| 0:17.0 | You can give the amount that you would spend in a coffee shop and that actually makes such a big difference. |
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| 0:35.2 | by Macmillan Cancer Support. After winning a crucial vote in the House of Commons this week, the government is going ahead with its cut to the winter fuel allowance. |
| 0:51.0 | The Labour Party's own previous analysis claimed that this |
| 0:55.0 | policy could cause 3,850 deaths. |
| 0:59.0 | Inevitably, there's still huge disquiet and dismay in the Labour Party. |
| 1:03.6 | We don't have to be here. |
| 1:05.5 | I was not elected to impoverish my constituents |
| 1:08.4 | and put them in this hardship. |
| 1:10.0 | And the message from Kistama and Rachel Reeves |
| 1:12.4 | remains the same. |
| 1:13.6 | Things are going to get worse before they get better. |
| 1:16.4 | But how's the public going to react to that? |
| 1:18.1 | And what does it mean for the Labour politicians who want a more hopeful plan for the country? |
| 1:22.1 | I'm John Harris and you're listening to |
| 1:23.8 | politics week in the UK for the Guardian. On Tuesday the House of Commons |
| 1:31.6 | voted on the government's plan to withdraw the 2 to 300 pound |
| 1:34.9 | winter fuel allowance from 10 million pensioners. 52 Labour MPs abstained, only one actually |
| 1:41.2 | rebelled. This cut so far anyway is the most controversial |
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