Andrew Griffith has accused the government of "betraying" Waspi women over changes to the state pension age in the UK. The government has chosen not to compensate women born in the 1950s, claiming most knew about the pension changes. But the shadow business secretary says Labour campaigned on how they were going to "right the injustice", before changing their position after winning the election. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00What a betrayal. Cabinet minister after cabinet minister queued up, had their
00:05photo taken with WASPI women, talked about how they were going to right the
00:09injustice and now they come into office and like so many other groups they've
00:14let down, pensioners over the winter fuel allowance, family farmers, even family
00:19businesses. There's a huge sense of betrayal and that is not good. Whatever
00:23you think about this individual decision, that is not good for our system of
00:27democracy that people get elected on one basis and then come into office and
00:32relinquish that and do the opposite. I don't think it's at all unfair. Labour
00:36chose what they campaigned on. They chose which side of this debate they sat on.
00:41We'll never know what the Conservative government would have done because
00:44unfortunately between the interval of the Ombudsman's report coming out and
00:49now, Labour are now the government. So it's a decision for the government and
00:54we mustn't let them off the hook. Our track record on pensioners is one I'm
00:58proud of. We came up with the triple lock, we honour the triple lock. A basic state
01:03pension is worth about £3,700 a year more after Conservative governments.
01:08But this is a decision of this government and they should be held to
01:12account and I'm very worried about what that means for trust and the level of
01:16betrayal.