A Labour MP has criticised her own Government, claiming people "don't believe us anymore" following cuts to winter fuel payments for pensioners.Jo White, MP for Bassetlaw, told GB News that public trust had been damaged by the controversial policy.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00Yet we've got this kind of talk about, you mentioned your constituency voting for leave.
00:04It voted overwhelmingly for leave back in 2016.
00:07And now we've got these leaked plans about Starmer wanting to re-ingratiate us with the EU, put British troops on EU missions, reintroduce a youth mobility scheme, make concessions on fishing rights.
00:23That's not the kind of behaviour that the Bassett law constituents will believe in, is it?
00:28What we need is if you if you we that there are businesses in my constituency who've lost trade as a consequence of of the of the bureaucracy and the red tape they have had to endure since since coming out of the EU.
00:45We need those connections to be smoothed over.
00:48And I want my businesses to be able to trade effectively, not just in Europe, but across the world.
00:54And that's what the negotiation is about.
00:55There's not going to be any young people's exchanges because I think that opens the risk to free, free movement of labour.
01:04And I don't want to see that happen.
01:06But what I want to see is businesses flourishing in this country because they're able to trade effectively right across the world, including in European countries.
01:16You mentioned the winter fuel allowance earlier, Jo, just a yes or no terms.
01:20Should the cut to winter fuel be scrapped?
01:22What I want to see is a raising of the threshold.
01:26So it's not a yes or no.
01:27I want to see the raising of the threshold.
01:29So the people in the higher range of of upper range of of paying tax payments, they should they should not.
01:37You know, they obviously are wealthy people and therefore they do not particularly benefit from the winter fuel payments.
01:43So it's people who need that money in order to be able to live in the winter times.
01:48And finally, does Starmer have a woman problem?
01:52That's what Louise Hague has suggested, former transport secretary.
01:56And indeed, we had similar rhetoric from Rosie Duffield, who talks about a lad's culture inside number 10.
02:02Briefly, Jo, what's your view?
02:03I haven't come across a lad's culture.
02:08The moment I see it, I would shout out about it because we have to women have to be able to be able to work effectively within the Houses of Parliament.
02:18And if there's any blockages in terms of misogyny or sexism, then it has to be called out and stopped immediately.