Charity song mocking Keir Starmer over winter fuel payments could could storm charts today - but BBC still isn't playing it

It is the ultimate festive accolade that musicians vie for every year. Freezing This Christmas, by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers, slams the Prime Minister for Labour’s decision to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners to the tune of Mud’s 1974 track Lonely This Christmas. The BBC has faced pressure to play the song, with Greg Smith, Conservative MP for Mid Buckinghamshire, saying it was ‘an absurdity’ that the BBC ‘should not play a song that is selling so well’. Freezing This Christmas, by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers, slams the Prime Minister for Labour ’s decision to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners The BBC has faced pressure to play the song, with Greg Smith, Conservative MP for Mid Buckinghamshire, saying it was ‘an absurdity’ that the BBC ‘should not play a song that is selling so well’. Pensioners have told me they feel abandoned.’ He accused Starmer of ‘hypocrisy’ and hit out at the PM for not putting the changes to winter fuel payments in his manifesto.