Eluned Morgan says to ‘ask Kier’ over winter fuel payments

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At her first first minister’s questions, Eluned Morgan says that she won’t waste time facing questions that are better directed at Kier Starmer’s government in Westminster.

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00:00Does the First Minister of the Welsh Government see that by endorsing, as she has done, the

00:06tough decision by Rachel Reeves, she is indeed endorsing the continuation of Conservative

00:11austerity?

00:12Party leaders questioned whether the Welsh Government and Eluned Morgan had fought the

00:16UK Government over their controversial decision to cancel winter fuel payments for pensioners.

00:21But Eluned Morgan said the difficult decision was down to years of issues created by the

00:25Tory UK Government of the last decade.

00:29Could you show your anger and your mantle and actually tell her that she had made the

00:34wrong policy decision and how this will affect 400,000 pensioners here in Wales and take

00:41£110 million worth of benefits away from some of the most vulnerable people in our

00:46society?

00:47Well, I understand this is a really difficult and concerning time for a lot of pensioners

00:54in Wales, and people, as I say, have raised that concern with me during that summer of

01:00listening.

01:01But I think it is important to recognise that the UK Government has had to make some really

01:08difficult decisions.

01:10If you look at Brexit, you just see the fact that the exports have collapsed from the United

01:17Kingdom.

01:18We had the Liz Truss Government that pushed up interest rate payments.

01:21All of these things happened, and now we've got to clear up the mess that you left.

01:28Eluned Morgan answered a number of questions over the decision of the UK Government, but

01:32she said that those questions were much better presented to Keir Starmer, given the decision

01:37had basically nothing to do with decisions made in the Senate.

01:40Well, I'll account for the actions of my government, and Keir Starmer will have to

01:45account for the actions of his government.

01:47I'm not going to come here week in, week out, to respond to questions that should appropriately

01:53be given to Keir Starmer.

01:55If you want to go and ask Keir Starmer, you should have gone into Westminster.

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