On Wednesday, June 29th, Rebecca Harris joined women from across the country at a demonstration outside the Palace of Westminster in support of women hit by the acceleration of the equalisation of the State Pension Age, a change which began in 1995 and was compounded in 2011.

Campaigners also met their local MPs inside the Palace in order to secure their support for the campaign.

In Castle Point according to the independent House of Commons Library, around 4110 women are directly affected by the 2011 Pensions Act alone. 319 local residents signed the e-petition calling for transitional arrangements, which received almost 200,000 signatures nationwide.

The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign works to lobby the Government to introduce transitional arrangements for those women affected, many of whom were not notified about the changes, and took early retirement, leaving them without any income.