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Fresh doubts have been cast on the Conservative government’s commitment to human rights and the UN disability convention, after the party’s MEPs voted against calls for new European laws that would protect disabled people from discrimination. All but three of the […]
Leading activists appalled by the prospect of another five years of attacks on disability rights and equality – following the election of a majority Conservative government – are working on plans to set up a new national organisation of disabled people. […]
The Motability car scheme has been asked to justify tough new rules that restrict grants made to disabled drivers with high support needs, at the same time that its charitable trust has reserves of nearly £200 million. Last June, the charity […]
David Cameron’s new government will include a campaigning disabled MP and a former minister for disabled people from the last time the Tories had an absolute Commons majority, 18 years ago. The prime minister announced this week that Robert Halfon, the […]
A disabled campaigner has succeeded in proving that he was discriminated against – twice – by the courts service. Doug Paulley, a wheelchair-user, has taken a string of cases against public bodies and companies for alleged discrimination under the Equality Act. […]
An overall majority for the Conservatives, three party leaders quitting, David Cameron back in Downing Street, and a landslide for the SNP in Scotland. The response from many disabled people to the result of yesterday’s general election – once the scale […]
A triple-gold medal-winning Paralympian has criticised the government for cutting funding for many disabled people with high support needs. Sophie Christiansen expressed deep concern at the Conservative party’s manifesto pledge to make a further £12 billion in cuts to social security […]
The Green party has agreed to take part in a public debate with disabled activists on its pledge to legalise assisted suicide. The challenge to debate the issue came from a leading member of the anti-assisted suicide campaign group Not Dead […]
The disabled president of the Liberal Democrats has complained of her “outrageous” treatment by a conductor who refused to ask a young dad to move his child’s buggy from the wheelchair space on a near-empty London bus. Baroness Brinton, a wheelchair-user […]
The grassroots anti-austerity group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) has strongly defended its policy of backing campaigns that do not focus solely on fighting for disabled people’s fundamental rights and inclusion. DPAC has faced criticism from a leading disabled activist and […]