Both Conservative and Labour administrations have now refused to release research showing PIP payments are vital for disabled people’s survival, exposing the ideological nature of planned welfare ‘reforms,’ writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Assessing Labour's employment rights offer following the national policy forum
ANDY McDONALD MP says there's still a great deal to welcome in Labour's planned reforms to workers' rights, but calls for clarity on some key issues

AS THE shadow secretary of state for employment rights responsible for the production of the New Deal for Working People, I was overjoyed that what we’d all worked so hard on was adopted as Labour Party policy and has been heralded ever since as the cornerstone of the next Labour government’s transformative agenda.
So I was greatly interested in the deliberations around this policy area at our party’s National Policy Forum (NPF) in Nottingham a few weeks ago.
Whilst we await the final wording coming from the NPF, what do we know?
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