Sally Nugent grilled Ellie Reeves on BBC Breakfast this morning, quizzing whether £12,000 was enough for pensioners to live on without their winter fuel allowance payments from the government.
Reeves insisted Labour had no other choice, due to the "£22 billion black hole" in finances, which she blamed on the mini budget created by Liz Truss during her 49 days in office. "It was a decision we had to take to take control of the country's finances," Ellie insisted.
"We had tough choices because of the state the country has been left in after 14 years of the Tory government." However, Sally Nugent pointed out that pensioners who might be living on just £12,000 per year "are going to lose out [and] going to have to find that extra money from somewhere".
"Do you think £12,000 is enough?"she asked. Viewers certainly didn't, with one raging: "Is this women just a script reader if I hear one more labour MP mention the last government I’m gonna break my Tv #BBCBreakfast." (sic)
"Is this Labour MP on repeat or what? She just spent the entire interview saying the same thing over and over," another raged in frustration. "If there’s no money because of this black hole how can junior doctors get 22% pay rise, public sector 5.5% plus #BBCBreakfast," quizzed another.
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Others urged the Labour Party to stop using Liz Truss as a "scapegoat" for the current financial decisions, as it emerged party members had branded the fuel allowance cuts "reckless" and "wrong".
"Not a fan of Liz Truss in any way, but I don’t like how this Elie Reeves is using Truss’s record as a form of blackmail. 'Accept the things we are doing or the economy will crash,'" one exclaimed.
"They are getting a lot of mileage from Truss."
Another declared: "@UKlabour are offering the country nothing."
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Ellie had defended that the triple lock for pensioners remains in place and that those who receive pension credit will still receive winter fuel allowance.
However, she wasn't convincing a sceptical Sally, or viewers on Twitter, who continued to lament the decision online.
"Labour spokeswoman stuttering through this interview.. is this the best they can do?" asked one, adding anger emojis to her post.
"#BBCBreakfast 22billion black hole; the one we created by paying pay rises," argued another.
