Britain’s Waspi chairman Angela Madden is quietly confident that Prime Minister Andy Burnham will honour a longstanding pledge to pay compensation to 3.5million women born in the 1950s who were given inadequate notice of increases to their state pension age.
Many were hit hard in the pocket as a result – and left with little time to plug the hole in their finances.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, 72-year-old Madden believes Burnham is in ‘listening mode’ and that ‘if he can do something, he will’. She is adamant this is the case despite the PM seemingly rowing back on his support
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