Labour MP backs warning that pensioners ‘will die’ if winter fuel allowance cut passed

Labour MP warns pensioners 'will die' if winter fuel allowance cut passedSource: LBC

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00:00You think that as a result of what Rachel Reeves is proposing, that some

00:04pensioners will die as a result?

00:06Yes, that's not me speaking. We had a meeting, a number of MPs, Labour MPs, had a

00:11meeting with the various agencies representing older people, Age UK, people

00:17like that. So we're talking about organisations of some standing in our society and

00:21they're saying that this is a real risk, that people will die as a result because

00:25we have these excess deaths in winter. I just think it's the wrong route to go down.

00:30you