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The accessible housing crisis is a key issue for Green candidate Sara Nicola Ruth* in the general election campaign, particularly as she is herself “stuck in an inaccessible home”. Her experience with inaccessible housing convinced her that she needed to use […]
As – probably – the only disabled person to have founded a UK political party, John Urquhart* can speak from a position of strength when it comes to the disability policies they would prioritise if their party came to power. Their […]
Disabled people were not mentioned once in the first major television event of the general election campaign, despite the participants speaking more than 21,000 words over more than two hours. Analysis of transcripts of the leaders’ debate between Rishi Sunak and […]
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 […]