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A disabled shadow minister has accused the public body that provides MPs with financial support of “oppression” and “discrimination”, after it refused to meet some of the disability-related costs of doing her job in parliament. Marsha de Cordova described the “worry, […]
The parliamentary authorities should do far more to make the House of Commons accessible, according to a disabled MP who has faced a series of major barriers in his first weeks since being elected. Jared O’Mara, who has cerebral palsy, has […]
The architect of the government’s sweeping welfare reforms is facing accusations of hypocrisy, after becoming the third minister with responsibilities for disability equality to be shamed over an inaccessible constituency office. Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been the […]