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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 ...
Four national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have told the Covid inquiry that people who receive care and support ...
Labour MPs were given their final warning by disabled activists at a sweltering rally outside parliament on Monday that, if ...
A British news channel has said it has nothing to apologise for after a right-wing commentator and comedian suggested the ...
The disabled peer who has led UK opposition to the legalisation of assisted dying for decades has pledged to work to make a ...
A transport minister has told peers that it would be “counter-productive” – and take too long – to draw up rules that would ...
The minister for social security and disability has insisted that billions of pounds a year of cuts to disability benefits ...
A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, ...
Disabled people’s lives will be increasingly in danger because of MPs’ failure to understand the risks posed by the assisted ...
Disabled MPs have voted overwhelmingly against the assisted dying bill, and warned that it poses a clear danger to disabled ...
The government is considering whether to strengthen disability hate crime laws even further, after ministers agreed to make a long-awaited improvement that will mean longer sentences for ...
The social security and disability minister has misled MPs after suggesting he has ushered in a new era of openness and transparency in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Sir Stephen ...