Waspi women hold Labour leader Keir Starmer hostage in final compensation showdown | Personal Finance | Finance [Video]

I have no sympathy for him, because it’s a pickle of his own making. I am fascinated to see how he will try to squirm out of it, though, because it won’t be easy.

Just over two years ago now, I broke the news that Starmer had come out in support of the Women Against State Pension Injustice (Waspi) campaign.

Campaigners were thrilled, and I was thrilled for them, calling it a “major boost in their battle for compensation”.

I’ve interviewed many Waspi women, and have been impressed by the way they have battled for justice against an establishment that has only ever wanted one thing from them: to go away.

Yet I feared their chances of redress were close to zero. That it would end up in a Westminster stitch up (and I still fear that may be the case).

So I was genuinely surprised to see Starmer publicly …