YOUR recent front page announcing that the UK Government has “backed down” on Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) compensation will have given some people hope that justice is finally on its way. I wish that were true. For the women born in the 1950s who were promised a state pension at 60, this is not good news – it is a tactical retreat and a slap in the face.

Women of my generation did everything that was asked of us. We worked, we paid National Insurance, and on top of that we provided the unpaid labour that keeps society going – raising children, caring for disabled and elderly relatives, and running households. We organised our lives around a state pension at 60 because that is what we were told, in black and white, we could rely on.

Then the government moved the goa

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