{"id":76291,"date":"2025-06-10T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76291"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:16:43","slug":"why-is-sorry-the-hardest-word-keir-starmer-joins-rachel-reeves-in-refusing-to-apologise-for-labours-winter-fuel-chaos-as-pm-insists-u-turn-wasnt-due-to-panic-about-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/10\/why-is-sorry-the-hardest-word-keir-starmer-joins-rachel-reeves-in-refusing-to-apologise-for-labours-winter-fuel-chaos-as-pm-insists-u-turn-wasnt-due-to-panic-about-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is sorry the hardest word? Keir Starmer joins Rachel Reeves in refusing to apologise for Labour&#8217;s winter fuel chaos &#8211; as PM insists U-turn wasn&#8217;t due to panic about polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Reeves-starmer.png\" alt=\"Has Rachel Reeves replaced Angela Rayner as Starmer's de facto number ...\" width=\"521\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sir\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-c5cc3180-4610-11f0-b2b2-879c26eea05a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/keir-starmer\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Keir Starmer<\/a><\/span>\u00a0today refused to apologise for scrapping winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners &#8211; despite\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-c5eb0420-4610-11f0-b2b2-879c26eea05a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/labour\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Labour<\/a><\/span> being forced into a humiliating U-turn.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14798667\/Why-sorry-hardest-word-Keir-Starmer-joins-Rachel-Reeves-refusing-apologise-Labours-winter-fuel-chaos-PM-insists-U-turn-wasnt-panic-polls.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp; Sir\u00a0Keir Starmer\u00a0today refused to apologise for scrapping winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners &#8211; despite\u00a0Labour being forced into a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/UK-Labour-party.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76292,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76291\/revisions\/76292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}