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This morning, the UK’s largest trade union - Unite - accused Starmer's party of deciding to “pick the pockets of pensioners” while leaving the rich “totally untouched”.

Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that Starmer needs to be “big enough and brave enough to do a U-turn on this choice", adding that it's "completely wrong".

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Originally Posted by bots

This morning, the UK’s largest trade union - Unite - accused Starmer's party of deciding to “pick the pockets of pensioners” while leaving the rich “totally untouched”.

Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that Starmer needs to be “big enough and brave enough to do a U-turn on this choice", adding that it's "completely wrong".

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I literally cannot understand how their first policy and the one that will follow them around for the next 5 years whatever the outcome is taking money from pensioners, its just bizarre, I have no doubt there are pensioners out there who dont need it but if you are going to implement a policy you cannot have such a low cut off, they managed to means test child benefit and set the cap at 50k why not set the cap at 20k ...anyone getting over 12500 will be paying tax anyway so it would have been pretty easy for HMRC to identify these 'wealthy' pensioners