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Activists’ anger after they discover Labour frontbencher is married to DWP director

By John Pring on 31st March 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Activists’ anger after they discover Labour frontbencher is married to DWP director
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Disabled activists have questioned Labour’s commitment to justice for the countless claimants whose deaths were linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after it emerged that one of its senior frontbenchers is married to a DWP director-general. Rachel Reeves, […]

Anger as Starmer says Labour is ‘the party of working people’

By John Pring on 10th March 2022 Category: Politics

Anger as Starmer says Labour is ‘the party of working people’
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Keir Starmer has caused anger among disabled activists – including within his own party – after declaring publicly that Labour is “the party of working people”. The Labour leader’s comment, in a speech to Scottish Labour’s annual conference, has reignited concerns […]

Fresh call for Labour to end its silence on care charging

By John Pring on 20th January 2022 Category: Independent Living

Fresh call for Labour to end its silence on care charging
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Labour has failed to explain how it would respond to the independent living crisis and calls for an end to care charging if it won power, despite its leader announcing a new “five-point plan for the transformation of social care”. Keir […]

Labour conference: Concern over Starmer’s ‘hard-working families first’ pledge

By John Pring on 30th September 2021 Category: Politics

Labour conference: Concern over Starmer’s ‘hard-working families first’ pledge
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Disabled Labour activists have raised concerns about their leader’s promise to “always put hard-working families and their priorities first”, and his failure to mention disabled people, in a 12,000-word essay published on the eve of his party’s annual conference. The essay […]

Labour says calling for free social care would ‘just give Tories a stick to beat us with’

By John Pring on 24th June 2021 Category: Independent Living

Labour says calling for free social care would ‘just give Tories a stick to beat us with’
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Labour has given the strongest sign yet that it has gone back on its new leader’s pledge that he would introduce free social care if his party won power, after a shadow cabinet member said such a policy would be too […]

Watchdog warns social care is at ‘crisis point’ and calls for legal right to independent living

By John Pring on 13th May 2021 Category: Independent Living

Watchdog warns social care is at ‘crisis point’ and calls for legal right to independent living
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The equality and human rights watchdog has warned that social care is at “crisis point” and has called on the government to introduce a legal right to independent living, just 24 hours after Boris Johnson failed again to honour his promise […]

Labour silent on why Kendall ignored disabled-led social care plans in major speech

By John Pring on 6th May 2021 Category: Independent Living

Labour silent on why Kendall ignored disabled-led social care plans in major speech
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The Labour party has refused to explain why a major speech by its shadow social care minister ignored disabled-led proposals for fundamental reform – including free social care – that were backed by her own leader during his election campaign. Sir […]

Labour faces pressure from party activists over Starmer’s independent living pledge

By John Pring on 24th September 2020 Category: Independent Living

Labour faces pressure from party activists over Starmer’s independent living pledge
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Labour activists are pushing their party for a stronger commitment to plans drawn up by disabled people that would solve the social care crisis by setting up a co-produced National Independent Living Service (NILS). A motion based on the NILS plans […]

Coronavirus: Shielding MP takes legal advice over ‘discriminatory’ new rules

By John Pring on 4th June 2020 Category: Politics

Coronavirus: Shielding MP takes legal advice over ‘discriminatory’ new rules
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The shadow minister for disabled people has taken legal advice over the government’s “outrageous” decision to prevent MPs at serious risk from coronavirus from continuing to vote and take part in debates from their own home. Labour’s Vicky Foxcroft, who has […]

Labour’s new leader faces pressure to follow through on campaign rights pledges

By John Pring on 9th April 2020 Category: Politics

Labour’s new leader faces pressure to follow through on campaign rights pledges
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Keir Starmer is set to face pressure from the disabled people’s movement to commit his party to keep a series of pledges he made during his successful campaign to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. Among the most striking of those […]

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