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Chief executive of Disability Rights UK Kamran Mallick urged MPs to restore provisions in the Care Act
CAMPAIGNERS for disabled people’s rights have joined civil-liberty and protest groups in urging MPs to reject the renewal of the Coronavirus Act in the Commons tomorrow.
Parliament passed the Act in March to give ministers powers to respond to the pandemic, including to postpone local elections, close pubs and allow courts to use videolink.
The time-limited powers, described as draconian by rights groups, can only be extended with MPs’ approval.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
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
