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Labour MP Grahame Morris protested in Parliament yesterday that the sick and disabled are paying for the economic crash with their lives while Britain's richest survive unscathed.
He and other left MPs exposed the Con-Dem government's "war on welfare" in a debate that was demanded by over 100,000 people through an online petition.
They called for the government to put a brake on welfare cuts while an assessment was carried out into the effects of Con-Dem policies on disabled people, their families and carers.
The government’s retreat on PIP still leaves 150,000 new universal credit claimants facing halved benefits from April 2026, creating a discriminatory two-tier welfare system that campaigners must continue fighting, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY
GEOFF BOTTOMS, who has worked in a palliative care hospice for 11 years, argues the postcode lottery for proper end-of-life care must be ended to give the terminally ill choice and agency