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Assessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told

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Image Courtesy of Winvisible   By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 A grassroots group has warned MPs

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Ofgem’s ‘very limited’ fuel price cap ‘will lead to deaths, ill-health and misery’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 The energy regulator’s “discriminatory” plans to impose only a “very limited”

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McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament

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By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given

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Shock after inquest ignores ‘fitness for work’ and jobcentre concerns

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By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017 A coroner has declined to explain why he failed to take

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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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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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Coroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre

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By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017   About 100 activists and their allies have taken part in

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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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