The WASPI campaign has written to shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves following her comments on compensation.
The Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign have written to shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, following her comments on compensation for 1950s-born women made during a press conference in Edinburgh earlier this week. Speaking to journalists alongside Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at the head office of NatWest Group on Tuesday, Ms Reeves was asked about compensation promised to WASPI women under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party.
The WASPI campaign said the shadow chancellor appeared to contradict Sir Keir Starmer who had previously said a Labour government would respond to the Ombudsman “at pace and reach a judgement”, leaving the door open to compensation but still not committing. WASPI is now urging its social media following of hundreds of thousands of affected women to write to Labour candidates in their constituencies, asking for a firm pledge that they will support compensation in the first 100 days of the new parliament if elected as MPs.
“There is no point in having an Ombudsman if governments - blue and red alike - are just going to ignore its recommendations. WASPI women have waited six long years for the outcome of his investigation and it vindicated us, demanding that compensation be paid.
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