Labor and Conservatives both refuse to commit to compensating Waspi women

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Neither the Conservatives nor Labor committed to compensating the Waspi women on Sunday morning, despite the release of a damning report calling on the government to pay billions to those who were not informed of this. increase in state pensions.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Labor Party leader Anneliese Dodds refused to say whether they would compensate those found by the Parliamentary Ombudsman and services Health (PHSO) as having lost out financially after the Department for Work and Pensions failed to adequately communicate changes to the state pension age.

The Chancellor said the problem highlighted by the Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign was "genuinely more complicated" than others in which compensation has been promised, such as the infected blood disaster and the Post Office Horizon scandal , and said: “There is no secret safe for money. »

Jeremy Hunt refused to commit to compensating the Waspi women when interviewed on the BBC

The Labor Party president also refused to commit to compensating the women affected. Speaking to BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Ms Dodds said: "These women deserve respect, that's the most important thing."

She added: "I think Laura, if I were to sit in your studio and say, picking at the air, this is exactly how, for example, compensation or other elements of the response to women should work Waspi... I don't think they would believe me, frankly, and they shouldn't either."

These comments are likely to enrage activists and MPs...