Conservative leadership candidate condemns winter fuel cuts

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leadership candidate Tom Tugendhat has condemned the government's refusal to reverse the winter fuel payment cut for pensioners after facing a growing backlash. Sir Keir Starmer warned of a "hard path ahead" in his first speech as prime minister at the Labour conference in Liverpool. "What they've done is they've decided to take money from vulnerable pensioners and give it to the union paymasters. That's a decision and that's a choice that this Labour government has made," Mr Tugendhat said. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The problem is he's really made a complete hash of it, hasn't he, and none of it's worked out at all.

00:05All he's done is he's demonstrated the arrogance of somebody who simply can't deliver.

00:09Frankly, he's fried the whole thing in bananas and made a complete mess of it.

00:12Look, what they've done is they've decided to take money off vulnerable pensioners

00:16and give it to their union paymasters. That's a decision.

00:18That's a choice that this Labour government has made,

00:21to pay for itself to serve itself rather than to serve the British people.

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