Starmer says Sunak should apologise for £22bn black hole in government financesRishi Sunak says he wants to endorse what Starmer said about the late Queen, and about the Prince of Wales.
He says Labour MPs voted to remove the winter fuel payment from over 10m pensioners, including those on just £13,000 a year. He asks if Starmer will publish the impact assessement this week.
Starmer says “the fact of the matter is this, they left a £22bn black hole, and they hid it from the OBR”.
Mitigations are in place, he says. And he says the triple lock shows increases in pensions “will outstrip any loss of payments”.
He urges Sunak to apologise for the £22bn black hole.