Rishis 2k boost for pensioners is a crumb of comfort for some but means little to those in care paying thousands [Video]

“WHY do you hate pensioners?” asked my fellow Loose Women panellist Janet Street Porter when PM Rishi Sunak sat beside us on the show a couple of weeks ago.

She then proceeded to hose him down with a few inconvenient facts and figures to back up her blunt question while the audience clapped its approval.

Perhaps their response precipitated Rishi’s promise this week of a forthcoming £2k a year “boost” for pensioners, or maybe it was in the pipeline already.

Either way, his claim that people must have “peace of mind and security in retirement” is a potential vote winner among the all-important, 12.6million people of pensionable age.

It’s a start but doesn’t go far enough. …