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A disabled entrance door button, September 15, 2014
NEARLY half of disabled people feel ignored and forgotten by political parties campaigning for the general election, a new survey showed today.
Disability charity Sense polled 1,000 people with complex disabilities and found that 47 per cent believe disabled people and the problems they face are not important to political parties.
The same percentage said that politicians do not do enough to engage disabled people to secure their vote.
TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK tells Ben Chacko that Labour can win back disillusioned voters by delivering workplace reforms, rebuilding trust and challenging the far right’s growing influence
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary ALAN MARDGHUM speaks to Ben Chacko about the PM-in-waiting, the threat of Reform and the radical change of direction this country needs
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE