Headline : There is a good reason why Waspi women have been denied compensation

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For a week, the Labour Government looked as though its new Downing Street grid was working. There have been a series of carefully planned announcements from clean power to planning reform to local government aimed at showing the Government is speaking to voter priorities after a bumpy start.

Yet just as the Christmas break beckons, the Prime Minister finds his Government embroiled in a fight that risks dividing his own party: the plight of the Waspi women.

The final week of Parliament before Christmas tends to be a place for awkward government announcements – shuffled out in the hope that few are looking. “It’s take the trash out week,” explains a Labour staffer.

On Tuesday, Liz Kendall took to the Chamber to announce that the Waspi women – born in the 1950s – would not be compensated for a Civil Service mess up which saw some not given sufficient warning that the pension rules were changing and the age would be increased from 60 to 65. It quickly led to a pummeling from her own side – with Labour MPs raising concerns.

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