Samuel Kasumu comments on WASPI women compensation debate
WASPI campaigners have expressed their anger with ex-Tory adviser Samuel Kasumu’s comment that “sorry should be enough” while speaking on the BBC.
Mr Kasumu said “I don’t think compensation is appropriate for this particular circumstance, sometimes ‘sorry’ should be enough” when discussing whether WASPI women should receive DWP compensation on BBC Two’s Politics Live show.
Mr Kasumu also said WASPI women had “ample time” to find out about changes to the State Pension age and pointed out that they’d had an extra £900 guaranteed by the Triple Lock, against the Ombudsman’s minimum recommended compensation of £1,000 and said that compensation shouldn’t be given in the current economic climate.
“I don’t think compensation is appropriate for this particular circumstance,” he added.
These comments sparked a row with Labour’s Rebecca Long-Bailey as she reacted negatively to the idea that WASPI women had “ample time” to find out about the State Pension changes.
Ms Long-Bailey branded the Government’s treatment of WASPI women as an…
