
A 99-year-old Second World War veteran who travelled 4,400 miles to talk to the Prime Minister about the squeeze on pensions for Britons living abroad said she was “bitterly disappointed” Sir Keir Starmer did not meet her.
Anne Puckridge is among nearly half a million UK state pensioners whose pots have been frozen at the level they were when they left the country, rather than being uprated in line with payments for those who remain in Britain.