ONE has to admire Labour in Scotland’s brass neck. Their pledge to bring back Winter Fuel Payments should they win the next Scottish Parliament elections is beyond the bizarre.
Only last month, Labour MSPs voted against a Holyrood motion calling on the UK Government to reverse its cuts to the payments, and Scottish Labour MPs at Westminster trooped into the lobbies to support the cut.
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I am sure this move has nothing to do with the reaction the party are getting on the doorsteps in advance of three crucial council by-elections, with Labour already suffering recent losses at by-elections in Dundee and Edinburgh.
It has been estimated by the UK Government that an additional 50,000 pensioners will be living in relative poverty next year because of cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment.
As we are hit with plummeting temperatures, Mr Sarwar as Labour leader in Scotland needs to stand up to Prime Minister Starmer now to support our vulnerable pensioners, not potentially wait until 2026.
Alex Orr
Edinburgh
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