00:00What a betrayal. Cabinet minister after cabinet minister queued up, had their
00:05photo taken with WASPI women, talked about how they were going to right the
00:09injustice and now they come into office and like so many other groups they've
00:14let down, pensioners over the winter fuel allowance, family farmers, even family
00:19businesses. There's a huge sense of betrayal and that is not good. Whatever
00:23you think about this individual decision, that is not good for our system of
00:27democracy that people get elected on one basis and then come into office and
00:32relinquish that and do the opposite. I don't think it's at all unfair. Labour
00:36chose what they campaigned on. They chose which side of this debate they sat on.
00:41We'll never know what the Conservative government would have done because
00:44unfortunately between the interval of the Ombudsman's report coming out and
00:49now, Labour are now the government. So it's a decision for the government and
00:54we mustn't let them off the hook. Our track record on pensioners is one I'm
00:58proud of. We came up with the triple lock, we honour the triple lock. A basic state
01:03pension is worth about £3,700 a year more after Conservative governments.
01:08But this is a decision of this government and they should be held to
01:12account and I'm very worried about what that means for trust and the level of
01:16betrayal.
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