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The new government has yet to announce who will be Labour’s minister for disabled people, but the decision not to appoint Vicky Foxcroft to the post has set back relations with significant parts of the disabled people’s movement. Foxcroft, who has […]
Campaigners have welcomed election defeats for a series of former Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers, while also expressing disappointment that three of the most unpopular figures from the last 14 years managed to survive the Labour landslide. There was […]
Up to 14 current and former disability ministers, employment ministers and work and pensions secretaries could lose their seats at tomorrow’s election, giving disabled voters the chance to “punish” them for 14 years of cuts, misery, and countless deaths. Of the […]
A Conservative election candidate was booed by an astonished audience of disabled activists yesterday when he dismissed the social model of disability as “discredited” and “wokeness gone mad”. Charles Fifield, a disabled former councillor and chartered surveyor, was speaking to the […]
A series of election candidates have been caught inventing party policy in front of an audience of disabled people, at a disability hustings event held just days before the general election. The event in Bristol was organised by five disabled people’s […]
Politicians attending an election disability hustings event showed a “shocking and disappointing” lack of knowledge and commitment to addressing the accessible housing crisis, when they were asked about the issue. None of the major parties have engaged within their manifestos with […]
Some of the main political parties fighting the general election have still not published accessible versions of their manifestos, with just a week to polling day. The worst offender is the right-wing Reform UK, which has so far failed to provide […]
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 […]
Katharine Macy grew up “hearing about people faking disabilities to lounge around on benefits”, but they knew the truth, because they had a mother who struggled to leave the house and desperately wanted to return to work. “I remember her crying […]
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. […]