Keir Starmer has found himself under fire after making a bold but misleading claim about pensioners during Prime Minister’s Questions. The Prime Minister was defending Labour’s recent U-turn on the Winter Fuel Payment, but ended up overstating the benefits most pensioners are supposedly receiving.
It all kicked off when opposition leader Kemi Badenoch called it “laughable” that Labour had backtracked on their original plan to limit the Winter Fuel Payment. Initially, Labour had announced that only those pensioners on certain means-tested benefits like Pension Credit would qualify. But now the policy’s been reversed again with all state pensioners back in line to receive it, although anyone earning £35,000 or more will have to repay the amount, reported the Express.
