Daily Express – Cruel winter fuel cuts will cost NHS £169m a year
Labour’s winter fuel payment cut will leave 262,000 pensioners needing NHS treatment, according to the Daily Express, costing the taxpayer £169m.
The latest from the hit TV show Strictly Come Dancing makes the front splash as swimmer Tom is first to leave the show.
Labour’s ‘cruel’ winter fuel payment cut may cost NHS £169m a year – new analysis
Labour’s cruel winter fuel payment cut will result in 262,000 pensioners needing NHS treatment because they are living in cold, damp homes, a new study predicts.
The modelling by the End Fuel Poverty Coalition estimates the additional cost of treating them would be more than £169million a year.
Ten million pensioners are set to miss out on the allowance under the change by Sir Keir Starmer which has sparked an intense backlash.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Mel Stride said: “Pensioners are highly vulnerable to the cold. Older people are going to struggle to keep their homes warm.
“Labour’s decision to cut support this winter will mean greater burdens on the NHS.
“This is another example of why there should have been a proper assessment of the wider impacts of this policy, which the government failed to carry out.
“They have now been forced to admit in response to my parliamentary questions that the vast majority of pensioners already in poverty will lose their winter fuel payment. This is utterly disgraceful.”
‘Devastated’ Nadiya Bychkova issues update on Strictly future after being axed from show
Strictly Come Dancing star Nadiya Bychkova has given an update on her future after initially refusing to be drawn on the controversial decision to send her and her celebrity partner Tom Dean home in the first elimination tonight.
The Ukrainian dancer was back on the Strictly lineup for the first time since 2022 this year but lasted just two weeks, being axed from the series in the first dance-off with celeb partner, Olympian Tom Dean.
The judges’ decision to remove the pair from the show after the pair fell into the bottom two dance-off, despite being in the middle of the leaderboard, led to criticism from former Strictly man Dan Walker, who danced with Nadiya back in 2021.
And tonight, after the result was announced, Nadiya posted on her Instagram that she was ‘not ready to talk about’ the elimination, clearly seething.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read
Editorial 30 September 2024.
Monday’s UK newspaper front pages cover a wide variety of domestic and international stories. The most notable is the rising escalation in the Middle East as Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen and tanks began to build up on the Lebanon border.
A little closer to home, the Conservative Party leadership contest is in full swing, with many of the hopefuls reacting to the latest extreme comment from Kemi Badenoch.
Ongoing speculation over the upcoming October Budget continues to make the headlines as does previews of Boris Johnson’s book regarding his time in office.