Torsten Bell

Torsten Bell

Labour — Swansea West

Speaking in the House of Commons on 15 January 2025

Debate

Women’s Changed State Pension Age: Compensation

Contribution

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. The Labour party did oppose the acceleration of the state pension age in the early part of the last decade, but he and many other Members will have noticed very viscerally that the Labour party lost many elections since then. Parliament made a decision and the courts have since endorsed that decision. There was maladministration and we must learn the lessons.

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