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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: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits

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The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security

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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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#CripTheVoteUK: As UK doctors’ leaders abdicate duty to defend patients’ human rights disabled people face perilous post-election future

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BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday

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#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon

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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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