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Disabled members of the Labour party are angry that new plans to elect a disabled representative to a key party body will see half of the votes in the election given to unions. Members of the executive of Disability Labour, which […]
Disabled Labour activists have succeeded in a takeover of the organisation set up to build links between the party and the disability movement. During a heated annual general meeting (agm) of Disability Labour at a Leeds hotel on Saturday, the entire […]
Disabled Labour activists have gone public with their concerns about the “consistent failure” of the organisation set up to build links between the party and the disability movement. They are set to call for major changes to Disability Labour at its […]
Labour is facing concerted pressure to put an end to years of “blatant discrimination” against its own disabled party members, while also facing complaints about “inexcusable” access failings at this week’s annual conference in Brighton. Members of one disabled members’ campaign […]
Labour needs to do far more to address issues of disability rights and the inclusion of disabled people in society, two leading disabled academics have told a fringe meeting at the party’s annual conference. Disability rights issues were marginalised at this […]
Disabled party members have given overwhelming backing to the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party. Corbyn was elected with 62 per cent of the vote, in a result announced on the first day of Labour’s annual conference […]
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been accused of insulting disabled people by telling them to “work your way out of poverty”. His speech to the Conservative conference was short on policy detail but heavy with rhetoric, including a […]
Labour’s new shadow minister for disabled people has promised a major overhaul of the work capability assessment (WCA), and no further cuts to disability support, but has stopped short of calling for a return to previous levels of spending. Debbie Abrahams […]
The four candidates to be Labour’s next leader have produced between them only a small handful of policies aimed at disabled people, after being quizzed by some of their own party’s disabled members. Although the four were praised for their overall […]