I LISTENED very carefully to Theresa May's speech to the Conservative Party Conference when she spoke with great passion about fairness and justice for ordinary people.

This has encouraged me to hope that the government will soon address the grave injustice that has been done to women born in the 1950s – the generation that, ironically, Mrs May falls into – in regard to the raising of the State Pension age.

These women were given little notice of the change that would put back the age at which they received their state pension, by as much as almost seven years in some cases.

The majority of these women have worked hard all their lives, many from the age of 15 or 16, and paid income tax and National Insurance contributions in the absolute belief that they would receive their State Pension at 60.

However, the goalposts were moved but nobody told them until very recently (2011/12).

They had no time to adjust or revise their financial situation and plans, even if they had the means to do so.

Many of these women are now in very real hardship.

A very grave injustice has been done to these women and Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) is arguing that fair transitional arrangements should be put in place as soon as possible.

I urge all 1950s-born women and their families and friends to check out waspi.co.uk, look at the Waspi page on Facebook and join the local group Liverpool Waspi, which covers all of Merseyside.

Lily Clough by email