New Labour pension shadow pledges to fight for workers ‘robbed by greedy bosses’

Jack Dromey, the MP for Erdington in Birmingham who has today been named as Labour’s new pensions shadow, has pledged to fight for workers ‘robbed of their pensions by greedy bosses’.

Dromey fills the position vacated by the departure of Alex Cunningham earlier this month after voting against the Labour whip on a key vote on Brexit.

In 2016 he called for transitional arrangements to support women suffering from accelerated increases in their state pension age, appearing alongside Women Against State Pension Age (Waspi) campaigners.

Dromey, who is a former deputy general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union and treasury of the Labour party, is the husband of former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman. He resigned from Jeremy Corbyn’s team in 2016, but returned to the front bench, accepting the role of shadow minister for labour in October 2016.