Three sisters have described the government's decision not to pay compensation in the "Waspi" women pension case as a "slap in the face". The Parliamentary Ombudsman said more than three million women born in the 1950s did not get adequate notice of the changes to the rises in the state pension age and should be compensated.

Keir Starmer’s UK government faces a backlash after saying it will not compensate the so-called “WASPI women,” who were affected by an unexpected increase in the state pension age, the latest example of the new Labour administration alienating a core constituency of voters.

These calls were welcomed by Brian Leishman, the Labour MP for Alloa and Grangemouth, who told The i Paper he’d be willing to lose the party whip to vote in support of the Women

But Sir Keir's words and actions, and those of Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Chancellor Rachel Reeves among others, including photos of them with the Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaigners, left those campaigners with the impression that Labour was on their side.

The Scottish Labour leader said the decision not to compensate any women born in the 50s who were not aware of changes to the state pension age was "the wrong one".

Frustration from Waspi women over the “deeply disappointing” decision of the UK Government not to offer compensation is justified, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has said. UK Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall announced on Tuesday there will be no compensation for women born in the 50s who were not aware of changes to the state pension age.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says the prime minister was wrong not to compensate women affected by the UK government's failure to adequately warn them about changes to the state pension.

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