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CAMPAIGNERS called yesterday for better representation of disabled people in politics and an end to the barriers and discrimination they face.
Nearly a fifth of the population has some form of disability, but at the last election less than 1 per cent of candidates openly declared themselves disabled, Jonathan Fletcher of new group Project 125 told the Morning Star.
Disabled people are "virtually disenfranchised" across all parties, he argued, adding that there is a lack of awareness as well as lack of representation.
‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star
RUTH AYLETT recommends that this mixture of memoir, diary and poetry by a young Gazan writer be read as widely as possible
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports