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Senior figures in the Labour party pledged to try to rebuild trust with disabled people at a meeting with activists earlier this month at 10 Downing Street, Disability News Service can reveal. The 90-minute meeting between a delegation of seven disabled […]
One of the only disabled activists to speak at Labour’s annual conference has delivered a powerful rebuke to ministers who have failed to do anything to curb the rising levels of disability-related hostility. Fingers, a disabled RAF veteran who campaigns with […]
The campaigning organisation that represents disabled people within Labour had to cancel plans to attend this week’s conference in Liverpool after the party asked it to pay thousands of pounds in fees. Members of Disability Labour appealed for last-minute financial help […]
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has whipped up hostility towards disabled people by suggesting there is widespread fraud among claimants of personal independence payment (PIP), despite his own work and pensions spokesperson linking similar unfounded attacks to the far right. […]
The Liberal Democrats are set to try to use the government’s new Hillsborough Law to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release secret reports into the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. For years, the department has refused to […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of an “absolutely shameful” cover-up, after refusing to release documents that should show why disabled people across the country have faced cuts to their Access to Work support. Disabled campaigners have […]
Disabled activists who are working with sympathetic peers to address the serious risks posed by the assisted dying bill believe there is also still a chance that the legislation could eventually be thrown out by the House of Lords. Not Dead […]
Disabled experts from the United Nations have told the UK government to carry out a “comprehensive” assessment of the human rights impact of its universal credit cuts bill, further plans to reform disability benefits, and its mental health reforms. The UN’s […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is “dysfunctional” and needs to be the subject of a major review, according to the disabled MP who speaks for the Liberal Democrats on work and pensions. Steve Darling said his first year as […]
Senior Liberal Democrat MPs have insisted they are still committed to social care reform and want to move towards eliminating all care charges, despite the party saying little or nothing about the issue during its annual conference this week. Liberal Democrat […]