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Disabled would-be councillor advised 'don't bring walking stick'

LABOUR mentors’ only advice to a disabled woman hoping to become a councillor was not to take her walking stick to selection meetings, Unite conference heard yesterday.

The Unite activist, who wished to remain anonymous, served as a Labour councillor in Lancashire and hoped to represent her new community when she moved to the West Midlands five years ago. 

But she found herself frozen out of public life after being left disabled by a car crash. 

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