Members of WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) staged a protest this afternoon in Haverfordwest to ask MP Stephen Crabb to reconsider his decision on the state pension age.

The group were joined by members of the Green and Labour parties during their demonstration outside Haverfordwest leisure centre.

Joyce Watson AM led protesters into to a meeting with Mr Crabb to urge him to support their campaign.

However, the former work and pensions secretary told the group it was very unlikely that the pension age would be changed.

“No major political party in the UK has brought forward any plans to reverse the increase in pension age, so regrettably I had to inform the campaign group that it is very unlikely that it will be repealed,” said Mr Crabb.

“Any reversal to the current pension legislation would mean a greater burden of support falling on the current generation of younger working families.

“This is a difficult issue which needs to be looked at from the perspective of long term changes in our society.”

WASPI are a campaign group that aim to fight what they believe as injustice done to women born in the 1950s (on or after April 6, 1951) regarding changes to their state pension age.

The group argue that changes made to women’s state pensions in the 2011 Pension Act were unfairly implemented, leaving women affected with little or no time to make alternative financial plans.

Jackie Broadhurst, coordinator for Pembrokeshire WASPI, said: “We represent a cohort of women who have been unfairly disadvantaged by the speed of the increase, compounded by the absence of notice provided by successive Tory and coalition governments.”

The group estimate that there are 3,800 women in the Preseli Pembrokeshire constituency that have been affected.

On Friday, September 16 members of Pembrokeshire WASPI will join a Wales-wide protest at the Senedd, Cardiff.