THE government would end austerity now if it cared about disabled people, Labour said yesterday.

Shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams pointed out that the Budget had failed to do anything for disabled people, even though a recent Equality and Human Rights Commission report showed that the average disabled adult is over £2,000 a year worse off than in 2010.

Ms Abrahams said: “Even the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities condemned this government for causing a ‘human catastrophe’ in their failure to uphold the rights of disabled people.”