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Urgent letter from UN to Labour government warns: We think your cuts continue Tory attack on disability rights

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Human Rights

Urgent letter from UN to Labour government warns: We think your cuts continue Tory attack on disability rights
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A UN committee of disabled experts has told the government that its new benefit cuts bill appears to be a fresh attack on disabled people’s rights, a year after it issued a similar warning to the Conservative government. The letter sent […]

‘Complete shift in thinking’ needed on education of disabled children, says ALLFIE

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Education

‘Complete shift in thinking’ needed on education of disabled children, says ALLFIE
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Inclusive education campaigners have called for a “complete shift in thinking” on how disabled children and young people are educated, just as the government faces public uproar over reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system. There were widespread […]

Four disabled Labour MPs stand up to government over cuts to disability benefits

By John Pring on 3rd July 2025 Category: Politics

Four disabled Labour MPs stand up to government over cuts to disability benefits
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Four disabled Labour MPs stood up to their government’s attempts to reduce vital disability benefits, despite ministers’ chaotic last-ditch concessions to rebels that removed a significant chunk of their cuts bill. Marsha de Cordova, Marie Tidball and Emma Lewell all voted […]

Silence from MP sister of Rachel Reeves over suicide linked to PIP flaws, just as government was seeking cuts

By John Pring on 3rd July 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Silence from MP sister of Rachel Reeves over suicide linked to PIP flaws, just as government was seeking cuts
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Labour’s chair has refused to answer questions about a disabled constituent whose suicide was closely linked to flaws in the personal independence payment (PIP) system, just as her government was trying to cut PIP spending by billions of pounds a year. […]

Disabled activists warn Labour MPs who vote for cuts: ‘The gloves will be off’

By John Pring on 3rd July 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled activists warn Labour MPs who vote for cuts: ‘The gloves will be off’
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Labour MPs were given their final warning by disabled activists at a sweltering rally outside parliament on Monday that, if they vote for cuts to disability benefits, the “gloves will be off”. Ellen Clifford, one of the key organisers of the […]

Disabled MP who quit government over benefit cuts tells DNS: ‘The consequences will be devastating’

By John Pring on 26th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled MP who quit government over benefit cuts tells DNS: ‘The consequences will be devastating’
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Disabled Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has described how she was left with “no choice” but to resign as a whip over government plans to cut billions of pounds a year from disability benefits. In her first interview since releasing her resignation […]

Rebel Labour MPs send final warning to ministers before disability cuts bill is published

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Rebel Labour MPs send final warning to ministers before disability cuts bill is published
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Rebel Labour MPs delivered their final warnings to the government this week, ahead of yesterday’s publication of a government bill that will cut billions of pounds a year from spending on disability benefits. A group of 15 Labour backbenchers (pictured) took […]

We will keep fighting, disabled activists warn DWP as they protest against benefit cuts outside Tate Modern

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

We will keep fighting, disabled activists warn DWP as they protest against benefit cuts outside Tate Modern
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Disabled people have warned the Labour government that they will “not go quietly” and plan to keep fighting its plans to cut spending on their benefits by billions of pounds a year, as they staged a dramatic “die-in” outside a London […]

Labour government faces questions over why it stuffed access to elected office committee with Tories

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Politics

Labour government faces questions over why it stuffed access to elected office committee with Tories
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The Labour government has refused to explain why more than a third of the members of a new steering group that will target the barriers to elected office faced by disabled people have close links to the Conservative party. Nearly a […]

‘Access to Work showed me a working life was still possible… now Keir Starmer has put that at risk’

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Employment

‘Access to Work showed me a working life was still possible… now Keir Starmer has put that at risk’
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A leading disabled artist has been forced to stop working by “devastating” and “destructive” cuts to the Labour government’s Access to Work disability employment programme. Jess Thom (pictured this week) has had to halt her work with Touretteshero after AtW cut […]

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