Lisa Nandy defends Yvette Cooper’s decision to order urgent review following pressure driven by Elon MuskThe Liberal Democrats have attacked Conservative opposition leader Kemi Badenoch over her comments on potential means-testing of pensions.When asked during an LBC phone-in whether she would “look at” the triple lock, Badenoch said: “We’re going to look at means testing. Means testing is something which we don’t do properly here.”First Kemi Badenoch came for the mothers and now she has set her sights on the grandmothers.Millions of pensioners felt betrayed by Labour’s cut to the winter fuel payment, now it’s clear their pensions aren’t safe with the Conservatives.[Labour] deceived the British public by going back to type of absolute massive increases in taxing and massive increases in spending. They didn’t tell the British public that in advance of the election.And this is key to British politics at the moment. We understand why the British public were angry with us at the last election and booted us out. The problem is they are now angry with Labour as well, because they lied to the British public, and they are not doing the things they said before the election. They’ve gone back to type. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jan/17/labour-grooming-gangs-review-lisa-nandy-conservatives-elon-musk
Author : Martin Belam
Publish date : 2025-01-17 11:37:00
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