TORY leadership candidates Esther McVey and Matt Hancock have blasted plans for the BBC to scrap free TV licences for millions of elderly Brits. The BBC’s call to ditch the free perks for pen…
But households with one person getting pension credit won't have to pay.
She said: It's a Conservative election manifesto pledge- we have to make sure it happens so there's no question that the over-75s must keep those free TV licences." "This is all a short-term debate, the big debate is how do you have a national broadcaster in the era of the internet?" Labour's Tom Watson called it a "betrayal of three million pensioners" as he wrote to all candidates asking them to honour their promises.
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