Chancellor and PM have both defended not to pay compensation to Waspi women

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, is giving evidence to the Commons health committee. The hearing is just starting and there is a live feed here.

Good morning. Keir Starmer is facing his last PMQs of the year and, if he takes a glance at the papers this morning, he will find that he is being attacked by the Tory papers for not implementing a Jeremy Corbyn manifesto promise. Here are two of the headlines about yesterday’s announcement that the government will not compensate the so-called Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women – women who lost out because they were not properly notified about the planned rise in their state pension age.

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