The TV presenter has attacked the Labour government's decision to slash winter fuel payments for pensioners
Carol Vorderman has called on Sir Keir Starmer to apologise for the 'astonishing' decision to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners. The presenter branded the Labour government's determination to pursue the cut as 'unbelievable'.
Speaking to Sky News, she said she understood the decision to take away the payment from wealthy pensioners, who won't need support to warm up their homes this winter, the Express reports. She told the broadcaster: "I'll be one of those in two years time. So I wouldn't need the winter fuel allowance payment.
"But to go from 12 million to less than two million pensioners receiving it is just way too low. And I'm shocked by it, because they could raise that money in so many other ways."The presenter, who in the run-up to the general election in July voiced her support for a tactical voting website designed to oust the Conservative Party from government, said when asked what Sir Keir Starmer should do now: "I think he should apologise. I absolutely do.
Asked by Sophy Ridge if she thought the newly-elected government had 'duped' voters and the country during the election campaign, Ms Vorderman said: "I do, I really do. "And I am shocked because, even extracting the fact that many pensioners will be suffering because of it... it is unbelievable that this new Labour government the first thing they do is that? It is not, I don't believe, what they were voted in to do, it is quite astonishing really."
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