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Tory conference: Disabled activists shame Tories on cost of ‘heartless’ austerity

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Tory conference: Disabled activists shame Tories on cost of ‘heartless’ austerity
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Disabled activists have protested outside the Conservative conference in Manchester in a bid to shame party members into accepting that a decade of austerity cuts from Tory-led governments have caused poverty, despair and countless deaths.  Protesters spoke of how the cuts […]

Tory conference: Universal credit damage ‘is throwback to Victorian era’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tory conference: Universal credit damage ‘is throwback to Victorian era’
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The boss of a homeless charity that provides services just a short walk from this week’s Tory party conference has told party members that universal credit is causing early deaths, addiction, mental distress and suicides, with claimants “at the end of […]

Tory conference: Solution to social care crisis ‘may finally be within reach’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Independent Living

Tory conference: Solution to social care crisis ‘may finally be within reach’
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A permanent solution to the social care funding crisis may finally be within reach, with growing calls for proposals that would include free social care, according to a former adviser to the Tory health and social care secretary. Richard Sloggett, who […]

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