The PM failed to give any clarity to the millions of women who suffered when the state pension age was raised
WASPI campaigners have slammed Rishi Sunak's "not good enough" response after he was asked on the timescale for the Government's response to last week's ombudsman's report.
Asked if he had the timescale for the Government's response, Mr Sunak said: "No, I don't, as you know it was a detailed report which dates back some years." He asked if the Government will have “made its mind up” before an autumn fiscal event, with Mr Stride saying in his reply: “As to whether there is an autumn statement at all and the date thereof is not within my remit, and indeed I wouldn’t be absolutely certain that any particular date or autumn statement is pencilled in or otherwise.”
“It’s estimated that some 270,000 WASPI women have died since the start of the campaign in 2015 and that another dies every 13 minutes.” Conservative MP Peter Aldous, who co-chairs the State Pension Inequality for Women All-Party Parliamentary Group, said: “A failure by Government to comply with recommendations would be almost completely unprecedented over the past 70 years and would in effect drive a coach and horses through an integral part of our system of democratic checks and balances.”
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