DAVID Cameron boasted of the Tories’ treatment of pensioners yesterday — ignoring billions of pounds in cuts which have axed services they rely on.

The Tory leader said he would stick to a 2010 pledge to shield universal state help from continued deep cuts to welfare spending for as long as he is Prime Minister.

But National Pensioners Convention organiser Dot Gibson said: “We are fed up with politicians using us and others as their political football.

“Mr Cameron’s latest remarks about his ‘fundamental duty’ to care for pensioners is another cynical move to win votes with the spurious statement that pensioners have done well under his coalition government.

“The truth is that the UK’s state pension is ranked at 36th out of 37 OECD countries, one in six older people live below the official poverty line of £175 a week and six million pensioners — the vast majority of whom are older women — have an income of less than £10,500 a year.”