A 99-year-old Second World War veteran travelled an incredible 4,400 miles to raise awareness of the ‘frozen’ State Pension issue with the Prime Minister but was left “bitterly disappointed” after failing to secure a meeting with Sir Keir Starmer. Anne Puckridge is among nearly half a million UK State Pensioners whose pensions have remained static at the level they were at the time of their emigration instead of rising annually as they do for those residing within Britain.

During the war, she…