Jo White, MP for Bassetlaw and convenor of the Red Wall Group, has just sent round a new batch of constituency newspaper-style pamphlets advertising her rebellions against the government. In a fake leader article titled “How I Won the Fight on Winter Fuel,” White writes:
“The decision to withdraw Winter Fuel Allowance from the vast majority of pensioners last year hung like a weight around the neck of the government… In May, I called on the Prime Minister to reflect, listen and issue an Executive Order to put right the wrong that had been caused. I was one of the first Labour MPs to speak out publicly and call for the threshold to be raised… I met with Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and she asked for my personal view on threshold. I told her straight: the £12,000 threshold is too ow, and it must be increased.”
White celebrates the U-turn and praises her ability to attack Reeves too:
“I have succeeded in reversing the Treasury bias towards London and the south. I have been recognised by the Chancellor for this whilst managing to annoy the -London Mayor in the process. I am not rude but I am y forceful and my Group intends to achieve much m more. Second best is no good for us, only the best will do.”
Curiously White’s selection of testimonials includes a supposed quote from Wes Streeting: “Jo White has the guts to say to the Prime Minister: you have got this wrong.” Labour MPs gaining currency by kicking Starmer while he’s down…
Speaking on the phone to Jonathan Karl, Chief Washington Correspondent at ABC News, about Khamenei, Trump said:
“I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well, I got him first.”
