SIR Keir Starmer's winter fuel payment cuts could kill thousands of pensioners, according to Labour's own research, it is claimed. The Prime Minister is facing growing rebellion this week over axing the benefit worth up to £300 for 10 million OAPs. He doubled down on refusing to offer any more concessions to the elderly as the Government insist they have to fill a £22 billion black hole.
Labour published analysis during its 2017 election campaign, when Sir Keir was in the Shadow Cabinet, warning such a much could sound the death knell for many. It warned Tory plans to cut the allowance for 10 million elderly people would see a rise in excess deaths by 3,850 that winter, reports the MailOnline . The report called Theresa May's later abandoned proposal the "single biggest attack on pensioners in a generation".
A Labour MP told the Mail: "This is blatant hypocrisy. All those now reversing Gordon Brown 's winter fuel allowance were Labour MPs when we fought against Theresa May's government's plans to scrap it in 2017. "Times change but the basic ethos and political principles of the largest parties should not be quite as interchangeable.
" STRUGGLING pensioners are already reeling from the loss of their winter fuel allowance to help fund Labour’s mad dash for net zero. But it will infuriate them even more to hear that among the big winners from Ed Miliband’s £1.5billion spree on UK wind farms and solar energy projects are Iberdrola boss Ignacio Sanchez Galan, who has three .