Defence Secretary 'Happy To Meet Any Gurkha' As Veterans Continue Hunger Strike

The Defence Secretary has said he is "happy to meet with any Gurkha", as former soldiers continue a hunger strike about their pensions outside Downing Street.

But Ben Wallace also warned that no government "of any colour" had ever made retrospective changes to pensions similar to the ones the demonstrators are calling for.

The group of Gurkha veterans outside Number 10 is calling for equal pensions for Gurkhas who retired before 1997 and are not eligible for a full UK armed forces pension.

As of Friday, the Support Our Gurkhas protesters had reached their seventh day of not eating.