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WASPI's online petition to Parliament received 141,000 signatures resulting in a parliamentary debate on the issue of the changes to the state pension age. [8] [9]WASPI crowdfunded £100,000 to pay for legal action in order to challenge these changes.
The term “Waspi” refers to a woman born between 1950 and 1960 who was disadvantaged by the 1995 Pensions Act, which increased their pensionable age from 60 to 65. Key Points Starmer warned on ...
A protest group Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) was created in 2015, and an online petition of 118,000 signatures asked Parliament for a formal debate on the matter, [28] which took place in February 2016. [29]
In March 2016, a petition calling for provision of meningitis B vaccine to all children in the UK received over 800,000 signatures, and the issue was subsequently debated in Parliament. [31] In October 2020, footballer Marcus Rashford began a petition which gathered 1 million signatures. The petition called for the end of child food poverty ...
Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act Wednesday afternoon as the president approves a series of initiatives meant to tackle his key goal of curbing illegal immigration. The bill, which ...
The protests by the 50501 Movement come days after rallies in opposition of Trump's immigration policies were held across the country.
In the 2014 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) for "services to law and criminal justice". Starmer's policing work in Northern Ireland influenced him to pursue a political career, and he was elected to the House of Commons at the 2015 general election .
Archbishop of Canterbury has ‘lost confidence of his clergy’ over scandal, vicar warns