Sir Keir Starmer promised “every pensioner will be better off with Labour” as he defended taking “unpopular” decisions on policies such as the winter fuel payment.
He said: “I understand many of the decisions we must take will be unpopular.
“If they were popular, they’d be easy, but the cost of filling that black hole in our public finances, that will be shared fairly.”
Promising “no return to Tory austerity” and rebuilt public services, he added: “If you can’t take that on faith, perhaps because you’re concerned about the winter fuel allowance, then I get that.
“As I say, if this path were popular or easy we would have walked it already.
“But the risk of showing to the world, as the Tories did, that this country does not fund its policies properly, that is a risk we can never take again.
“Stabilising our economy is the first step of this long-term plan, the only way we keep prices low, cut NHS waiting lists, and secure the tiple lock so that every pensioner in this country, every pensioner, will be better off with Labour.”
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23 сен 2024
