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The president of the Liberal Democrats has admitted that her party needs to rebuild trust among disabled people, after five years of coalition government ended with a shattering defeat at last year’s general election. Baroness [Sal] Brinton, herself a wheelchair-user, said […]
The Liberal Democrats are set to call for the much-criticised “fitness for work” test to be scrapped, as part of a major shake-up of the party’s social security policy. The annual party conference will next week debate a new policy paper […]
The Liberal Democrats are set to become the first political party to choose a candidate to fight a parliamentary seat from a shortlist containing only disabled people. The party voted overwhelmingly at its spring conference in favour of measures to improve […]
A disabled former Liberal Democrat MP has refused to criticise the Tory work and pensions secretary for covering up a report that linked the “fitness for work” test with a disabled man’s suicide. Stephen Lloyd, who narrowly lost his Eastbourne seat […]
A former care minister has suggested that the Liberal Democrats might be in favour of reopening the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Norman Lamb (pictured), who was care minister in the coalition for nearly three years, told Disability News Service (DNS) that […]
Election 2015: Tories dodge questions over disability benefit cuts The prime minister has become the third senior Conservative figure in a week to refuse to say in front of television cameras whether his party plans to tax key disability benefits after […]
The Liberal Democrats’ disabled president has told Disability News Service (DNS) she is “astonished” that her party’s planned cuts to social security spending would not exempt all recipients of disability benefits. The party confirmed to DNS last week that although its […]
The Liberal Democrats have published a manifesto which – of the five main parties covering both England and Wales – appears to offer the most extensive series of proposals around disability rights. Among them are pledges to formally recognise British Sign […]
The actions and words of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government as reported in 60 Disability News Service stories published over the 60 months of the coalition May 2010: Coalition plans for government: School inclusion fears realised The fears of inclusive education […]
The Liberal Democrats have been accused of “deadly discrimination”, after they failed to pledge that their new target of “zero suicides in the NHS” would also apply to terminally-ill people. Disabled activists campaigning against the legalisation of assisted suicide were initially […]