CAMPAIGNERS against state pension inequality barracked Sajid Javid as he arrived at the Scottish Tory conference yesterday — but the Home Secretary walked on by.

Pickets told the Star that one Tory delegate had told them: “You’re living too long” before mockingly blowing them kisses. One activist said this was an instance of sexism which she had reported to the police on duty at the conference centre.

The Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign argues that hundreds of thousands of women born in the 1950s are owed compensation due to their retirement age being raised by up to six years.

The volunteer-led groups say women received little or no notice of the changes in state pension age, leaving them with no time to re-plan their retirements.

They have highlighted the cases of women being forced back into work in precarious, zero-hours jobs.

Waspi branches from Aberdeen and Banff and Buchan picketed the Scottish Conservatives’ conference opening day at the Bridge of Don exhibition and conference centre yesterday morning.

When Mr Javid arrived in a motorcade escorted by police outriders, the women booed him and asked him to listen to them. But he instead turned his back and walked into the conference centre without acknowledging them.

Lorraine Rae, a co-ordinator of the Aberdeen group, told the Star: “We’re here to raise awareness of our plight. I was 60 last year, and I still have four-and-a-half years to go before I get any pension money.”

Fellow activist Linda Carmichael commented: “Theresa May is a Waspi woman. So many politicians are talking about bringing it in as a benefit, means-testing it. That wouldn’t help 95 per cent of women.

“If it was a private pension, I’d be suing someone for this.”