WASPI women tell government ‘we’re not going away’
Starmer slammed the Conservative government for failing to green-light compensation for 1950s-born women caught out by moves to hike the state pension age for women from 60 to 65. As PM, he suddenly sees things differently.
In March 2022, I broke the news that Starmer had come out firmly in favour of Waspi demands for compensation.
He cheerfully posed with Scottish Waspi campaigners holding up a pledge card stating: “I support fair and fast compensation for 1950s women.”
Waspi women saw this as a huge boost in their battle for redress. Especially when it became clear that Labour was heading for power.
That wasn’t the only support Starmer granted them.
On March 21 this year, the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman’s final report concluded that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to provide proper information to 1950s women who suffered injustice as a result and were due compensation.
Starmer’s response?
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