Last week, I challenged a  Labour MP on whether or not they understood the hypocrisy in speaking about charity work to help people in need this Christmas after they voted to remove the winter fuel payment, leaving millions going cold this festive period.

Their response was as baffling as it was revealing. “I am helping my constituents but of those that are eligible, only 60% have taken up pension credit,” they insisted, the insinuation, in my eyes, being that nearly half of those losing…