🚨 BREAKING: Labour will ban trans women from female hospital wards, confirms Keir Starmer.

Starmer told ITV today he agrees with NHS reforms that would ban trans people from single-sex wards. When asked if trans women should be allowed on women's wards, he said: 'I disagree'.

Smart, authoritative and insightful critique of Rishi Sunak's disability benefit cuts proposals - reducing them to rubble in fact - by Stef Benstead

Some facts about #PIP

1. It is NOT an out-of-work benefit
2. The assessment & application process is hard. It is not 'easy to claim'
3. Only 40-45% of claims are successful
4. Getting the correct reward is difficult. Challenging it can take months.

Government unsustainable and needs change, say disabled people.

Disability benefit cuts that are expected to affect more than 450,000 people by 2029 will only lead to 15,400 more people finding paid work, according to official forecasts

That's about three percent of the number of people affected.

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once more with feeling

These groups go much further than criticising ULEZ policy - they endorse vandalism, violence and deeply Islamophobic and racist comments about the Mayor of London.

It’s deeply concerning to see that London Mayoral Candidate Susan Hall is an active member of these groups.

Just bc anti-trans activists, politicians & journalists keep repeating the phrase “gender identity ideology” it doesn’t make it a thing. Everyone has a gender that forms part of their identity. And we should all have the right to express our gender in a way that is true to us

The access of disabled people should not be regulated by the ableism of nondisabled people.

Disabled and neurodivergent people shouldn’t have to be exceptional to be supported or accepted. That comes from capitalist and ableist ideas.

Conservative minister Chris Philp here really struggling to grasp the fact that Rwanda and Congo are two entirely different countries.

Pretty sure this contravenes the Good Friday Agreement

NEW: A disability activist has been granted permission to take the DWP to court over its plans to tighten a key disability benefit test

Ellen Clifford is bringing a judicial review of the consultation into changes to the WCA

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The UN has found 'no significant progress' in the UK government's treatment of disabled people in the seven years since it was found in breach of its obligations under the #UNCRPD

Shocking, but not surprising. Not at all

boycott ryanair.

Pleased that Macmillan Cancer Support is supporting this petition by Scope. 👇🏾

Disabled people and people with long-term conditions are not the problem. Let's not get distracted from the need to address challenges with our social safety net, employment support and health service.

The Renters Reform Bill could have, and should have, been the start of a fairer renting system in England. Instead, the government has bowed to the landlord lobby and gutted the Bill.

We simply cannot support this Bill in its current form.

Attacking people with mental health problems receiving social security is a misguided and dangerous response to rising levels of poor mental health

Health and disability benefits should be provided alongside greater mental health support. It should not be an either-or situation

I'm not a superstitious person but this is absolutely the sort of omen which ushers in 500 years of darkness suffering and strife

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Imagine if Green Park was shut for six months for nondisabled people