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He came across really badly on ITV today.. just seemed to either not care or just wanted to dismiss, the massive influx they say they'd had from people affected by the halting of the Universal Credit uplift.

Yes, of course it was a temporary measure but since it was put in place, inflation is higher, they're going to increase NI, energy bills have gone up considerably again.

Winter looming, this isn't the time to stop in full, that temporary uplift.

Why does too,no presenter challenge Ministers on the cold weather payments.
They are the most hard to get from the most ridiculous of rulings to get them.

People eligible for them can get £25 for a 7 day period where the temperature falls to or below freezing.
It's paid in arrears even for those on those awful pre pay meters.
Often up to 2 weeks after the freezing 7 days.

However, here's the big block to these payments.
It has to be freezing for 7 CONSECUTIVE days.

In a 3 week period for instance.
You may find 6 days in a row, at freezing or below, the 7th day the temperature at some point hits up to 1 degree above freezing.
No payment triggered.

The same could happen the next 2 weeks.

Making around 18 days in 3 weeks where the temperature was freezing or below.
With ONLY 3 days, above freezing.

Yet there'd be NO payment of the £25 to anyone in that period in that scenario.

It is not fit for purpose.
Sunak this morning said people can get £25 a week in cold weather payments.

He didn't go on to say how it's fixed in a way where very few indeed payments are ever triggered.

Yet no one challenges Ministers on these things.

Sunak for the first time for me, today came across ice cold in compassion.
Talking about new training for better jobs, which will take not weeks but months if even possible, yet reducing income right now.

Unbelievable and heartless.
Amid the triumphalism we'll no doubt see this week which will please hard-line members there at conference and will also please the heartless hardline supporters of the Cons.

I hope however that for up to 10% of voters who give softer support to the Cons, plus the Con members who are caring and know this wrong, I hope they'll just try to make their voices heard, as well if they are allowed to, over the deceit and over the voices of this heartless, hard-line PM and his Cabinet.