Theresa’s fury over Corbyn’s ‘fake claims’
THE Prime Minister rounded on Jeremy Corbyn yesterday for spreading ‘fake claims’ about Tory care policy in a bid to ‘sneak’ an election win.
Theresa May vented her fury against the Labour Party leader for trying to scare pensioners.
Announcing that she would press ahead with a cap on care costs after previously ruling one out, she said of Mr Corbyn: ‘The only things he has left to offer in this campaign are fake claims, fear and scaremongering.’
Mr Corbyn had seized on controversy about Conservatives’ social care plans in a bid to shore up his own floundering election campaign.
The Labour leader has claimed that the plans amounted to a ‘dementia tax’, although they did not involve bringing in any new taxes.
Mrs May yesterday chided reporters for asking about the ‘dementia tax’, saying they were ‘using terms that have been used by the Labour Party to try and scare people in this country’.
Last night in an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Neil, she said Labour was trying to make political capital out of the issue without trying to offer a serious solution to the care crisis.
Mrs May suggested she had acted on the cap to reassure people they would not be penalised, adding: ‘I’ve seen the way that Jeremy Corbyn wants to sneak into No 10 by playing on the fears of older and vulnerable people, and I’ve clarified what we will be putting in the Green Paper which I set out in the manifesto.
‘What I worry about is the way in which there have been fake claims about our policy, which are deliberately trying to scare old and vulnerable people.’
But Mr Corbyn turned the Prime Minister’s election catchphrase against her as he said: ‘This isn’t strong and stable, this is chaos.’
He added: ‘I’m not playing on anybody’s fears, I’m expressing the fears that a lot of people have and I suggest the Prime Minister, instead of blaming me, should look to herself and look to her team and look to the policy, or lack of policy, that’s she’s put forward.’
Mrs May’s attack echoes Donald Trump’s election campaign last year, in which he regularly criticised the US media for ‘fake news’.