Ministers 'to rethink' disability cuts
Planned changes to disability benefits will be "kicked into the long grass", according to a government source.
Planned changes to disability benefits will be "kicked into the long grass", according to a government source.
Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions secretary, denouncing £4bn of planned cuts to disability benefits as "indefensible".
The Minister for Social Care and Community, Alistair Burt MP, has launched a call for evidence to inform the Government's new National Carers Strategy.
Tory Zac Goldsmith has been forced to resign in shame as patron of a disability charity after he voted for cruel disability cuts.
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An elderly former headteacher today said she was left "too frightened" to use public transport after three upsetting ordeals on London buses in just one evening.