A senior insider pointed the finger at Downing Street for hostility on the doorsteps.
Scottish Labour are blaming the winter fuel payment cut and the Downing Street freebies scandal for two damaging council by-election losses in Dundee .
Labour had poured resources into the city, with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar hoping to win both contests.A senior Scottish Labour source said the result was “dreadful” for Dundee: “The SNP locally will see it as a free pass on their appalling record and it makes changing NHS and education performance much harder in the short term. The SNP vote fell but the significantly improved performance of the last two years for Labour did not turn out.
Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves caused anger when she announced the £300 WFP for older people will be means-tested. Reeves and Prime Minister Keir Starmer have also attracted flak for accepting free clothes from donors at the same time as voters are being asked to make sacrifices.
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