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Up to 14 current and former disability ministers, employment ministers and work and pensions secretaries could lose their seats at tomorrow’s election, giving disabled voters the chance to “punish” them for 14 years of cuts, misery, and countless deaths. Of the […]
A Conservative election candidate was booed by an astonished audience of disabled activists yesterday when he dismissed the social model of disability as “discredited” and “wokeness gone mad”. Charles Fifield, a disabled former councillor and chartered surveyor, was speaking to the […]
Katharine Macy grew up “hearing about people faking disabilities to lounge around on benefits”, but they knew the truth, because they had a mother who struggled to leave the house and desperately wanted to return to work. “I remember her crying […]
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 […]
Disabled people’s organisations have given a cautious but positive welcome to proposals from the Liberal Democrats to offer free personal care to all adults if they win power at the general election. In a policy pledge unlikely to be matched either […]
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 […]
Disabled trade unionists have warned that they will hold Labour to account on the promises it makes to improve the rights of disabled workers, if the party wins power at July’s general election. They have also called for activists to exert […]
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 […]