Member

In my constituency of Stourbridge, many people have thanked me over the past few days for voting against this flawed Bill last week—not just disabled people and their families and carers, but charity workers, work coaches, nurses and local authority staff. Nobody supports this Bill: not deaf and disabled people’s groups; not charities; and not health organisations. Not even the United Nations supports it. Let me be clear: the system needs reform and none of us disagrees that it needs to change. Labour campaigned on that promise in our manifesto, and I was proud to tell voters on the doorstep that we would be fixing social security and making it easier for people to claim, but the Bill before us does not do that.