PM sought to pin blame on inheritance from Tories for winter fuel payments acts in number 10 speech swarming sir Kier Stormer attempted to blame his controversial winter fuel payments decision on The Inheritance left by the Tories the Prime Minister used a major speech in the Downing Street Rose Garden to insist things are worse than we ever imagined do sir Kier repeated Chancellor Rachel Reeves's claim of a 22 billion pound black hole in the public finances and insisted we have to fix the NHS we have to fix our homes our schools put to him that some people would not think labor was honest during the election campaign and asked what further tax Rises to expect in the budget he said we were being honest about the situation before the election we set out very clearly what we would be doing with tax Rises I made it clear on numerous occasions that National Insurance bat and income tax would not go up the Triple lock for working people and that remains the position