Meet 72 year-old retired teacher Lynn Emm, who, because of Rachel Reeves, is now forced to choose between warmth and survival, heating her home for only two hours a day while struggling to make ends meet.
Labour’s raid on winter fuel payments has already cost the taxpayer £380m after a surge in benefits claims, analysts have warned, substantially eating into the £1.4 billion saving claimed by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
'Warm King Starmer just looked out, On the feast of Reeves, then...' Read Henry Goodall's version of 'Good King Winceslas' updated for Starmer's Britain, exclusive to the Daily Sceptic.
Why are well-off EV owners, swanning around in their £65,000 Teslas, getting off-peak electricity at half the price paid by little old ladies shivering in poorly insulated social housing, asks Nick Rendell.
Why has Labour hypocritically taken away pensioners' warmth this winter while its favoured policy areas are hosed with cash? It's simple, says Ben Pile. Because it can. Labour is the 'nasty party' now.
During the election campaign and in its manifesto, Labour promised not to raise taxes and said nothing about scrapping the winter fuel allowance. Has any party broken so many promises so quickly, asks Stephen Glover?
