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After six days in which disabled adults were ignored in a series of announcements from the new government, Labour’s work and pensions secretary has this morning launched an attack on the “unacceptable” number of people on out-of-work benefits. In its first […]
The new House of Commons looks set for a small increase in its disability representation, with at least three new disabled MPs winning seats in last week’s general election. Of the 650 MPs elected last week, there may now be at […]
Campaigners have welcomed election defeats for a series of former Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers, while also expressing disappointment that three of the most unpopular figures from the last 14 years managed to survive the Labour landslide. There was […]
A new report on the work capability assessment (WCA) has posed crucial questions for the new government on whether to scrap the test or improve it, just four days after Labour came to power in a landslide election victory. The Conservative […]
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have vowed to be a “critical friend” to the new Labour government, but they have called for it to “show our community that you will be on our side”. DPO Forum England, which represents more than 350 […]
Labour has published an election manifesto that has been shorn of key promises the party made on disability rights last autumn. The manifesto also confirms the party’s continuing refusal to promise an end to ruinous care charges if it wins power. […]
The Conservative party has continued to use misleading figures about “fitness for work” assessments, despite an independent watchdog finding they were potentially misleading. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has been forced to contact the party to draw its attention to […]
The right-wing Reform UK party has published a manifesto that repeatedly threatens the rights of disabled people, suggests it will pose significant safeguarding risks to benefit claimants, and warns of massive spending cuts to benefits and public services. Although the manifesto […]
The SNP has said almost nothing in its manifesto about how it would fight for the rights of disabled people at Westminster if its candidates are elected as MPs next month, five years after its last general election manifesto faced similar […]
Although Plaid Cymru’s manifesto contains just seven explicit mentions of disability in 72 pages, some of those policies would provide significant new rights for disabled people. A key pledge in the manifesto is that Plaid Cymru would push to implement the […]