This week Labour Cabinet Minister Liz Kendall announced that ‘WASPI’ (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women won’t get any redress for Government mistakes which caused injustice to some (although not all) of them. That’s in spite of her (along with PM Keir Starmer & the rest of the Labour leadership) making cast-iron pre-election promises that they would.
It’s a topic which the Centre’s founder John Penrose took up personally with Ministers on multiple occasions while he was an MP. Here’s just one of several examples.
John spelt out why this latest decision is bad politics and bad ethics too, by responding to a tweet on X from Sunday Mail journalist & commentator Dan Hodges.
He also disagreed with heavyweight Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson, who claimed the WASPI campaign had ‘little merit’:
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