Labour frontbencher backs GB News' Don't Kill Cash campaign as 'important issue to highlight'

GB News is calling on the Government to introduce legislation committing to protect the status of cash as legal tender and as a widely accepted means of payment in the UK until at least 2050.

The shadow secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport told Stephen Dixon and Anne Diamond: “We do need to protect cash, I think it's an important issue to highlight. I’m the [Shadow] Digital Secretary as well and we are moving very quickly into this digital age, things are changing very quickly.

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“Whether that's becoming cashless and everybody paying for things electronically, or whether that's people wanting more human interaction when it comes to dealing with problems and services and utilities, and public services and so on.

"You don't always want everything to be digital, but there are great opportunities with that for more efficiencies and productivity and better services.”

The campaign has been increasingly gaining momentum as the People's Channel continues fighting to protect vulnerable Britons who rely on cash and are being left behind.

Powell added: “We can't lose sight of the fact that we do need these authentic and real interactions as well and cash is one of them.

“And, of course, for small businesses, sometimes they paid fewer charges when they were using cash as well.”

Powell joins figures such as RMT union leader Mick Lynch in backing the GB News Don’t Kill Cash campaign.

Following the Covid pandemic, the rise of technology means many shops, cafes and pubs now only accept card payments.

However, more than five million adults still rely on cash in the UK and is used in six billion transactions every year.

The campaign has also drawn in support from politicians including Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely who said he would speak to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

He told GB News: “Yet again, you have these big firms, in this case the banks, that are shutting down branches all over the Isle of Wight and all over Britain and who's taking up the flack? It's the ATM machines to get cash out sometimes.

“But they're now having to charge because the banks aren't giving them a fair cut. But also more importantly, it's the postmasters and postmistresses that are struggling, because they're having to do the bank's job.”

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