Reading Lib Dems comment on Winter Fuel Payments u-turn: “People in our area deserve an apology from the Prime Minister”
31 May 2025
Responding to the Prime Minister's announcement that more pensioners will be eligible for Winter Fuel Payments next winter, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Tilehurst, Meri O’Connell, said:
“The world’s longest u-turn continues. This will be cold comfort to many vulnerable pensioners in Reading who lost out on vital payments last winter.
“Keir Starmer’s backtrack is far too late for the millions of pensioners forced to freeze in their own homes over the winter.
“People in our area deserve an apology from the Prime Minister, not vague words that will take months to materialise into something meaningfu