Labour voters to follow Chancellor’s lead and tighten purse strings in 2025 as Budget fallout continues
LABOUR voters plan to follow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ lead and tighten their purse strings in 2025, a poll shows.
As the fallout from her Budget continues, the most common New Year resolution from party supporters is to save cash.
Fifteen per cent want to economise, and 14 per cent learn a new skill.
Meanwhile, Tory voters are planning to get in shape — with 16 per cent hoping to lose weight and 15 per cent vowing to exercise more often.
Conleth Burns, associate director of pollsters More in Common said: “Despite the PM’s promise of a more prosperous 2025, Labour voters are vowing to keep their pounds in their pockets, while Tory voters are promising to shed pounds.
“Either way, voters appear to be bracing themselves for a year of belt-tightening.”
It comes as health secretary Wes Streeting told pensioners to “layer up and put the heating on” this weekend as temperatures plunge.
He faced a grilling for Labour’s decision to axe universal winter fuel payments.
Campaigners Age UK have warned that 2.5million poorer people who need the money – but have lost out – should go into debt rather than leave the radiators off.