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UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help

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Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an

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#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Labour ‘will take a human rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people

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Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people  Labour has promised that it will take a

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#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation of disabled people

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  Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017  

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Nobody is Unfit for Work

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  What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and

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Shock as Universal Credit rules treat sick as ‘fit for all work-related activity’ – against GPs explicit orders

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By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 25 May 2017 Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into

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Lower benefit cap sees income slashed for more than 10,000 disabled people

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By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 More than 10,000 disabled people have had their benefits slashed in

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‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017   The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again

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Activists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017   Disabled activists have explained why they took to the

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Billions of pounds of PIP cuts ‘will put lives at risk’

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  By John Pring   Disability News Service    2nd March  2017 The announcement of billions of pounds of cuts

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PIP INVESTIGATION: Politicians call for action over ‘widespread dishonesty by assessors’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Labour, the Green party and the Liberal Democrats have called for

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McDonnell pledges Labour will force government to debate UN ‘rights violations’ report

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By John Pring  Disability News Service Novemeber 17th 2016 Labour’s shadow chancellor has promised that the government will be dragged

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Coroner asked to explain failure to hold inquest into benefit sanctions death

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By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd November 2016 Lawyers for the sister of a disabled man who died after

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