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Marion Fellows MP has compared the plight of women campaigning against the change to their state pension entitlement age to those affected by the Post Office and Windrush scandals.
Thousands of women in Lanarkshire were amongst 2.6 million women across the UK born in the 1950s who were affected by the change.Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.
She has called for every woman affected to receive a minimum of £10,000 compensation as a matter of urgency. Ms Gibson said: “All women in the WASPI movement have distinguished themselves by their effective campaigning against the gross injustice that has been perpetrated against them, in the face of extreme provocation by a government who have been tone deaf to their pleas for justice.”
During the debate former SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford called for compensation to be settled before the House rises on July 23.
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