Exclusive: Treasury Ministers Spent Thousands On Media Training While Axing Winter Fuel Payments

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Treasury ministers have been criticised for spending thousands of pounds on improving their media performances while axing winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners.

That would be enough to pay the winter fuel payments for around 50 pensioners.

The Foreign Office and Scotland Office have also admitted spending thousands of pounds on media training since Labour entered office on July 5.

Cooper, the MP for Dumfries and Galloway, said Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the Treasury, criticised the last Tory government for spending hundreds of millions of pounds on content for ministers’ social media platforms.

He said: “Now he has been left red-faced by the shameful revelation that the taxpayer has been forced to shell out thousands of pounds to train him, Rachel Reeves, and her ministers how to defend their cruel decisions like cutting winter fuel payments on the airwaves – money that could have funded support for dozens of vulnerable pensioners.

“The British public deserve better than this Labour government of broken promises.”

Reeves has faced severe criticism for the decision to means test the winter fuel payment, meaning 10 million old people who previously received it now do not.

A spokesman for the chancellor said: “We’re not going to take any lectures from the Tories on how to handle the public finances when they lost billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to dodgy contracts during the pandemic.”



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