Anna Bird is right to highlight the glaring employment gap between disabled people and the working age population as a whole. While the number of disabled people in employment has increased in recent years, as a country, we continue to...
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It is true enough that much of the electorate don’t recognise people like themselves in politics. They do not hear authentic voices that connect with their lived experience.
Politicians talk incessantly about reflecting Britain better, but they remain blinkered to the...
When Sir Ludwig Guttmann founded the Paralympic Games, he said he wanted us all to stop focusing on what people couldn’t do, and focus on what they could. As we celebrate the phenomenal athleticism of our Paralympic athletes this month,...
This Labour party conference fringe event, in partnership with Scope, explored how the UK can afford to meet the extra costs that people incur due to disability.
We were joined by: Debbie Abrahams MP (shadow minister for disabled people), Elliot Dunster (group...
Following the launch of our cross-party report published with CentreForum and BrightBlue, The Generation Game, this panel explored how the government's spending choices will impact on older people and other vulnerable sections of society. We were joined by Debbie Abrahams MP (shadow...
It was Ed Miliband in his Hugo Young lecture earlier this year who set out the defining purpose of politics: reducing inequality. It's a matter both of social justice and economic good sense: the more equal a country, the more...