Home Secretary Yvette Cooper visited Halifax Police to thank officers for their hard work over Christmas, meeting the Neighbourhood Policing Team and joining a patrol in Halifax town centre.
Yvette Cooper was accused of being 'two-faced' for handing out mince pies while pensioners are 'freezing to death'.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves sparked a wave of anger when she decided to scrap the universal entitlement to the benefit, blaming a financial black hole inherited from the Conservatives. Ms Cooper, who is wearing a Santa hat while she hands out mince pies on a tray in a supermarket, is approached by the voter who tells the Home Secretary: 'I'm just shocked seeing you in Knottingley, giving mince pies out to people. For what reason?'
The Home Secretary was confronted by the furious voter who said she would be better off donating blankets to the elderly than delivering members of the public festive treatsMs Cooper then offers the voter a mince pie and a Labour leaflet but the voter tells her: 'The thing is, you've betrayed everything that everybody voted for you for, in everything.'
Labour has prompted anger with their decision to refuse compensation for the Waspi women, having already sparked the ire of pensioners for stripping millions of their winter fuel payments. Protesters hold placards while campaigning for the reversal of the winter fuel payment cuts to pensioners in October
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