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Hundreds of thousands face ‘starve or freeze’ decision after winter fuel payments cut, say disabled activists
Disabled activists say Labour’s plans to means-test winter fuel payments will leave many current recipients having to decide ...
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Lib Dem conference: Party ‘must campaign to save social care and NHS like our lives depend on it’
The Liberal Democrats’ deputy leader has told her party to campaign to save social care and the NHS “like our lives depend on ...
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Labour makes ‘unthinkable’ and ‘exclusionary’ decision to sideline disabled people from DWP ‘inactivity’ board
Campaigners have criticised the Labour government’s “hugely disappointing” and “exclusionary” decision to set up a board of ...
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Discrimination court win over UK’s ‘worst’ station for assistance ‘shows need for reform and culture change’
A judge has ordered Network Rail to compensate an access campaigner who was abandoned in a waiting-area after booking ...
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Lib Dem conference: Party pushes for assisted suicide despite concerns over lack of ‘watertight’ safeguards
Legalising assisted suicide is “the next great Liberal reform”, party members have been told, as the Liberal Democrats appear ...
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Co-production ‘will not be possible without funding from government’
The leading disabled people’s organisation (DPO) in Wales has warned the Welsh and UK governments that co-production of ...
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Lib Dem conference: Government ‘should consider criminalising disability discrimination’, says disabled MP
One of parliament’s new disabled MPs has suggested that the government should consider criminalising disability ...
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Lib Dem conference: Rising star calls on their party to ‘walk the walk’ on disability
A disabled rising star in the Liberal Democrats has spoken of their plans to ensure their party does more to draw on the creativity and unique contribution that disabled people can make to ...