Tories: Pensioners will feel betrayed over fuel allowance
Shadow Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says pensioners who will no longer receive winter fuel allowance will feel "betrayed" after Rachel Reeves announced she will make the benefit means tested. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I delivered four fiscal events, they were all audited independently by the OBR and we
00:07presented those to Parliament and we always allowed Treasury officials to answer any questions
00:14asked by the OBR honestly and openly and I think that is a good system and what it demonstrates
00:20is that our finances were in a fundamentally sound position when the last Conservative
00:26government left office but that the new Labour government has made political choices, choices
00:32not to ask for anything in return for unions despite giving them massive pay rises, choices
00:38to cancel the Rwanda scheme which is going to lead to more money being spent on housing
00:43asylums, those are political choices. Now what Rachel Rees needs to do as a new Chancellor
00:49is to accept that she has to take responsibility for the political choices that she makes.
00:54I think many pensioners will feel betrayed that a Labour government took away a benefit
01:02that Age UK says that many pensioners actually need. They did it without any warning at all
01:09and they did it because they are trying to blame a trumped up process of a bogus black
01:16hole. The black hole that we are talking about today is one of Labour's own making.