Diana Johnson had said measures such as a social tariff were being looked at
This morning the Daily Mail has splashed, approvingly, on a Corbyn-era Labour party press release. When Jeremy Corbyn was actually leading the party the paper never gave him credit for anything, but this morning it is pointing out that during the 2017 general election campaign, after Theresa May included plans to means-test the winter fuel payment in the Conservative party manifesto, Labour released analysis saying this policy could kill 4,000 people.
In their story Martin Beckford and Andrew Pierce say:
Published during the 2017 election campaign, the research said: ‘Since the introduction of the winter fuel payment by Labour in 1997, allowing for significant variation in winter weather, deaths among the elderly have fallen from around 34,000 to 24,000.
Half of the almost 10,000 decrease in so-called ‘excess winter deaths’ – the rise in mortality that occurs each winter – between 2000 and 2012 was due to the introduction of the winter fuel allowance.’
Continue reading… The Guardian Read More Diana Johnson had said measures such as a social tariff were being looked atThis morning the Daily Mail has splashed, approvingly, on a Corbyn-era Labour party press release. When Jeremy Corbyn was actually leading the party the paper never gave him credit for anything, but this morning it is pointing out that during the 2017 general election campaign, after Theresa May included plans to means-test the winter fuel payment in the Conservative party manifesto, Labour released analysis saying this policy could kill 4,000 people.In their story Martin Beckford and Andrew Pierce say:Published during the 2017 election campaign, the research said: ‘Since the introduction of the winter fuel payment by Labour in 1997, allowing for significant variation in winter weather, deaths among the elderly have fallen from around 34,000 to 24,000.Half of the almost 10,000 decrease in so-called ‘excess winter deaths’ – the rise in mortality that occurs each winter – between 2000 and 2012 was due to the introduction of the winter fuel allowance.’ Continue reading…
