EXCLUSIVE: Brian Leishman has called for Labour MPs to 'do the right thing' and vote to compensate women born in the 1950s affected by the changes to state pension age.
A Scottish Labour MP has urged his party colleagues to back an SNP bill to give the Waspi women compensation.
Alloa and Grangemouth MP Leishman said: "I urge all Labour colleagues across the entire PLP to do the right thing by Waspi women and vote for them to receive compensation and to get what’s rightfully theirs. The fact is that Waspi women are the victims of injustice. The 10-minute rule process allows Flynn up to 10 minutes to make a speech on why he wants to introduce his private member’s billand an MP wishing to oppose it can also make a 10-minute speech. The House will then decide whether or not the bill should be introduced and receive a first reading, which involves having its title being read out and an order for the Bill to be printed.
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