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The Tories have shamed Labour at their social gathering convention by parading a billboard highlighting their MPs who voted to axe winter gas funds from weak pensioners.
A van displayed the face of the politicians drove round Liverpool right now which featured pictures of every Labour MP who did not assist reinstating the £300 lifeline at a crunch vote within the Commons earlier this month.
The Conservatives have additionally launched an internet site with a hyperlink to a petition, the place folks can ship Labour a message.
The petition can be offered to the Chancellor forward of the finances on October 30.
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride MP stated: “Labour have made a political choice to force pensioners to suffer this winter whilst handing billions to their trade union paymasters in inflation busting pay rises.
“We said we would hold Labour to account. We won’t let Labour MPs forget how quick they were to betray the pensioners in their constituencies.”
Winter gas funds to pensioners rose to 11.6 million final 12 months, figures present because the Government continues to face a backlash over its plan to chop again the profit.
The quantity of people that acquired the fee final winter was 214,000 greater than the 11.4 million in 2022-23, and it has steadily risen from 11.1 million in 2020-21, statistics launched by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) present.
The annual tax-free fee of between £100 and £300 was launched in 1997 to assist eligible pensioners meet the prices of heating their properties in winter.
The Government is dealing with opposition to its resolution to means-test the feestripping it from hundreds of thousands of pensioners.
Pensioners staged a protest outdoors Labour’s annual convention on Monday to criticise the plan.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1952649/labour-winter-fuel-payment-conservatives