PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer has refused to apologise to pensioners four times for the government's decision to cut Winter Fuel Payments this year. During an interview with Good Morning Britain (GMB) co-host Susanna Reid this morning (September 25), Starmer was repeatedly asked if he wanted to say sorry as up to 10 million older people will lose the £300 payment. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced the government would axe the extra financial help available to some pensioners in a bid to fill a "£22 billion black hole".
When asked if he can justify the Winter Fuel Payment cuts, Starmer said to Reid: "Well, it's tough and I think the first thing to say and to explain is why we had to do it. "We inherited a really damaged economy, we did an audit and we discovered an undisclosed £22 billion black hole this year, which we have to fix.” 'Would you like to take this opportunity to say sorry?' Sir Keir Starmer refuses four times to apologise to pensioners for cutting winter fuel payments.
@susannareid100 #GMB pic.twitter.com/rLOpj2BF0D Reid then asked Starmer if he would like to take this opportunity to say sorry to pensioners like Chrissy who was an NHS nurse for 25 years and voted for Labour, to which he responded: “Well, I am really concerned that we've been put in this position.
When you inherit an economy with £22 billion missing, it is a really difficult set of choices. "But what I don't want to do is to allow the economy to run out of control. "Wha.