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Their union Prospect accuses V&A boss Tristram Hunt of refusing to negotiate
MINISTERS were forced to issue a dire double confession yesterday over their predictably failed “attempts” to get disabled people off benefits and into work.
Disabled People’s Minister Mike Penning told MPs that he “could not guarantee” the independence of disabled people when the independent living fund is slammed shut in March 2015.
The Tory came clean in a Westminster Hall debate over the future of the scheme that has helped 18,000 severely disabled people lead their own lives rather than being cared for in residential homes.
‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY