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Despite her party’s decision to drop its pledge to implement the UN’s disability convention into UK law, disabled Labour candidate Marsha de Cordova has this week confirmed her own long-standing commitment to the policy. She describes herself as a “lifelong campaigner […]
Labour has published an election manifesto that has been shorn of key promises the party made on disability rights last autumn. The manifesto also confirms the party’s continuing refusal to promise an end to ruinous care charges if it wins power. […]
The statistics regulator will rule tomorrow on whether the prime minister misled voters around the growth in disabled people found not fit for work, just two days after the same watchdog promised to investigate his claims about Labour’s tax plans. The […]
The Labour party has refused to answer key questions about the safety of its disability employment policies, and why it published an inaccessible social media post about those plans. Disability News Service (DNS) has been trying to clarify details of its […]
Disabled trade unionists have warned that they will hold Labour to account on the promises it makes to improve the rights of disabled workers, if the party wins power at July’s general election. They have also called for activists to exert […]
Progress on key parts of the government’s disability benefit reform agenda is unlikely to be significantly disrupted by July’s surprise general election, Disability News Service (DNS) has established. Rishi Sunak’s decision to hold a general election on 4 July means parliament […]
A Labour government would introduce a string of policies to reduce the disability employment gap and strengthen the rights of disabled people in the workplace, Labour’s shadow disability minister has told union activists. Vicky Foxcroft also told the TUC Disabled Workers’ […]
Three candidates to be the next mayor of London have refused to explain why they failed to turn up to a packed hustings event that would have allowed disabled people from across the capital to question them on their policies. Just […]
Only nine disability hate crimes in the whole of London led to significant action being taken by police last year, politicians have been told during a disabled people’s election hustings event. Although 600 disability hate crimes were recorded by the Metropolitan […]
The decision of Labour leader Keir Starmer to publicly back assisted suicide is “very alarming” and will make it “very, very difficult” for disabled campaigners to prevent its legalisation, according to those opposing a change in the law. Starmer told ITV […]