Some of the 3.8 million women affected by new laws marched on parliament under the banner ‘Shoulder to Shoulder’
At least 1,000 of the 3.8 million women who have been forced to wait up to an extra six years to get their pensions marched to parliament on Wednesday.
Around their necks were photographs of hundreds more women hit by the change in state pension age (SPA) who could not be at the march because they could not afford the travel costs, work on zero-hour contracts, or do menial jobs that would not give them the time off.
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