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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 […]
The Conservative government has failed to publish guidance that would have helped political parties support disabled people standing at next month’s general election. The government’s much-criticised Disability Action Plan, published in February, pledged three actions that would “support both the recruitment […]
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 […]
Disabled union activists have attacked the government’s demonisation of disabled people and its “disgraceful discriminatory language”, at a conference that began less than a day after prime minister Rishi Sunak finally announced the date of the general election. A series of […]
A disabled peer ran out of time during a Lords debate as she attempted to describe all the barriers disabled people face in their daily lives. Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson (pictured) told fellow peers that there was not enough time to describe […]
A disabled MP has warned that the introduction of low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) across England has too often had a damaging impact on disabled people’s independence. Labour’s Marsha de Cordova told a parliamentary debate this week that many disabled people have […]
The government is refusing to act or criticise its minister for disabled people after she shared a social media post that attacked her own department’s disability benefit reforms. Last week, Mims Davies shared a post on Twitter by a disability charity […]
The minister for disabled people has refused to explain why she shared a social media post that described her own government’s disability benefit reforms as “dangerous” and accused ministers of “demonising” disabled people. Mims Davies, who has been minister for disabled […]
The prime minister has been accused of whipping up hostility towards disabled people, and demonising and scapegoating claimants of disability benefits, with a new series of “chilling” reforms that will weaken the social security safety net. Rishi Sunak announced plans for […]
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 […]