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Lib Dem conference: Lamb calls for cross-party solution to social care crisis

By John Pring on 21st September 2017 Category: Politics

Lib Dem conference: Lamb calls for cross-party solution to social care crisis
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The Liberal Democrats’ shadow health secretary has called on the Conservatives and Labour to work on a cross-party basis to find a solution to the growing social care funding crisis. Norman Lamb said that politicians needed to accept that none of […]

McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament

By John Pring on 20th July 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament
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Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given the job of designing the solution to the social care funding crisis. John McDonnell was speaking to Disability News Service (DNS) as activists from Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) […]

Anger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result

By John Pring on 15th June 2017 Category: Politics

Anger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result
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Disabled activists have reacted with a mixture of anger, resignation and optimism to a general election that saw the Conservatives lose their parliamentary majority. Some believe that a resurgent Labour party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, which defied mainstream media […]

Labour pledges ‘transformation’ of social security as it fleshes out disability policies

By John Pring on 7th June 2017 Category: Politics

Labour pledges ‘transformation’ of social security as it fleshes out disability policies
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Labour has pledged to “transform” the social security system and to set out a bill to repeal cuts to disabled people’s benefits within a year, in one of the headline measures of a mini-manifesto devoted solely to disability issues. The document, […]

Abrahams ‘uninvites’ DPO… because it wanted to talk about independent living

By John Pring on 17th November 2016 Category: Politics

Abrahams ‘uninvites’ DPO… because it wanted to talk about independent living
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Labour’s relationship with the disability movement has suffered another blow after the party invited a disabled people’s organisation to speak at a major consultation launch, and then withdrew the invitation after discovering what it was planning to speak about. The party’s […]

Brothers speaks out on Labour’s failure to appoint shadow disability minister

By John Pring on 3rd November 2016 Category: Politics

Brothers speaks out on Labour’s failure to appoint shadow disability minister
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One of Labour’s most prominent disabled politicians has called on her own party to demonstrate its intent to hold the government to account by appointing a shadow disability minister. Labour admitted last week that it had still not appointed a shadow […]

Labour admits ‘confusion’… but still no shadow minister for disabled people

By John Pring on 27th October 2016 Category: Politics

Labour admits ‘confusion’… but still no shadow minister for disabled people
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Labour has admitted that it has still not appointed a shadow minister for disabled people, nearly three weeks after party leader Jeremy Corbyn completed a reshuffle of his top parliamentary team. There has now not been a Labour shadow minister to […]

Labour conference: Disabled members welcome Corbyn’s re-election

By John Pring on 29th September 2016 Category: Politics

Labour conference: Disabled members welcome Corbyn’s re-election
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Disabled party members have given overwhelming backing to the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party. Corbyn was elected with 62 per cent of the vote, in a result announced on the first day of Labour’s annual conference […]

Labour conference: Corbyn wins plaudits over shadow mental health minister

By John Pring on 29th September 2016 Category: Politics

Labour conference: Corbyn wins plaudits over shadow mental health minister
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Disabled party activists have welcomed the Labour leader’s decision to back their campaign for him to reinstate the post of shadow cabinet minister for mental health. Jeremy Corbyn was forced to scrap the post he created only last year in July […]

McDonnell promises DPAC ‘a seat at the heart of government’

By John Pring on 15th September 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

McDonnell promises DPAC ‘a seat at the heart of government’
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Disabled activists have been promised a seat “at the heart of government” if Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected as Labour leader and the party wins power at the next election. The pledge was made by shadow chancellor John McDonnell at an international […]

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