Blair promises U-turn on asbestos-death payouts
TONY Blair has promised to reverse a Law Lords Ruling that prevents families receiving full compensation for asbestos- related deaths.
He made the pledge to a union conference in Blackpool as Scottish MP Jim Sheridan pressed for action at Westminster.
Last month's decision by the highest court in the land in the UK affected thousands of widows whose husbands died from Mesothelioma. The Law Lords said that because it was impossible to say under which owner of the Welsh steel workers where Vernon Barker worked, current owners Corus were not liable to pay full compensation.
But today Mr Blair told the GMB conference in Blackpool that he hoped to make an announcement "in a couple of weeks".
He said: "I regret that judgement. I'm looking to see the best opportunity for us to change it. If we can change it, we will."
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