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Leading figures in the self-advocacy movement hope that a new campaigning alliance will help to hold political parties and the government to account in the run-up to the next election. Learning Disability Alliance England will be launched in Manchester later this […]
Labour has failed in an attempt to persuade MPs to call on the prime minister to sack his welfare reform minister, after he was recorded telling fellow Tories that some disabled people were not worth the minimum wage. Green said the […]
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been caught lying twice in a television interview about the impact of his reforms on disabled people, even managing to contradict his own special adviser. Iain Duncan Smith has been a focus of […]
The government’s welfare reform minister is facing calls to be sacked after suggesting that some disabled people should be allowed to work for less than the minimum wage. Lord Freud, seen as one of the architects of Conservative welfare reform policy, […]
A peer campaigning to become the first disabled president of the Liberal Democrats has complained that the debating chamber of the House of Lords is so inaccessible that sometimes only three wheelchair-users can speak in the same debate. There are believed […]
Two senior Liberal Democrat ministers have refused to criticise the Conservative chancellor for misleading voters about how he would protect disabled people from his planned benefits freeze. Both Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister, […]
A Liberal Democrat minister has cast doubt on Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claims that it does not collect or analyse accounts of disability benefit-related deaths. The comments of pensions minister Steve Webb at his party’s annual conference in Glasgow […]
The deputy prime minister’s promise to make mental health one of his party’s top policy priorities in fighting the next general election has sparked praise and anger from disabled campaigners. Nick Clegg said mental health would be “smack bang on the […]
Liberal Democrats have rejected calls for their party to pledge rises in social care spending that match those on the NHS, if it wins the next election. During a debate at this week’s Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow on the “core […]
A disabled peer could be set to become the first wheelchair-user to head a major UK political party. Baroness [Sal] Brinton is campaigning to become president of the Liberal Democrats, and is up against three other candidates. One survey of party […]