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May 6, 2015

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ELECTION 2015: Greens demand IDS apology for ‘misleading’ voters on benefit deaths

Tory work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is facing calls to apologise after he misled voters about sensitive information on benefit-related deaths that was unearthed by Disability News Service (DNS). Duncan Smith was one of five politicians taking part in a social security debate on the BBC’s The Daily Politics, alongside Labour, the

ELECTION 2015: Tories refuse to say which human rights they will dump

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The Conservative party are refusing to say which vital protections they would scrap if they win the election and abolish the Human Rights Act (HRA). The party’s manifesto says a Conservative government would replace the act – introduced by a Labour government in 1998 – with a British bill of rights, which it claims

ELECTION 2015: Charity boss criticised by watchdog over Tory manifesto photo

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The disabled head of a disability charity has been criticised by the charities watchdog after a full-page photograph of her was used – with her permission – in the Conservative party’s election manifesto. Ruth Owen, chief executive of Whizz-Kidz, is pictured in her wheelchair on page 44 of the manifesto, contravening strict rules on

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ELECTION 2015: Greens demand IDS apology for ‘misleading’ voters on benefit deaths

ELECTION 2015: Tories refuse to say which human rights they will dump

ELECTION 2015: Charity boss criticised by watchdog over Tory manifesto photo