Rebecca Long-Bailey in the Commons

Labour backbencher Rebecca Long-Bailey tore into the government’s refusal to give Waspi women compensation on Thursday, and even claimed ministers have responded like flat-Earthers.

The government decided last December not to grant a compensation package to women born in the 1950s who lost out on pension payments, when women’s state pension age was raised to be equal with men.

The decision drew major backlash at the time because ministers, including PM Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves, had campaigned alongside

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