Headline : Starmer facing growing Labour backlash over Waspi ‘betrayal’

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Labour MPs have warned the Prime Minister they are ready to defy the Government over its decision not to compensate the millions of women affected by changes to the state pension age.

The SNP has suggested they could force a vote on the issue, with the party’s Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn, stating that “those Labour MPs who once pretended to back Waspi must now be faced with the voting lobbies”.

Ian Byrne, a former Labour MP who lost the party whip earlier this year for voting against the Government, also urged Sir Keir Starmer to hold a vote during PMQs on Wednesday.

These calls were welcomed by Brian Leishman, the Labour MP for Alloa and Grangemouth, who told The i Paper he’d be willing to lose the party whip to vote in support of the Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign.

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