“This election is about who our country works for — the patriotic belief that Britain can be better and must be better,” said Kier Starmer concluding the first leaders’ debate earlier this month.
There are at least 16 million Disabled people in the UK – we make up a quarter of the population. We know this country doesn't work for us, we've known that our entire lives. We disproportionately live in poverty, achieve poorer outcomes in education, and are more likely to be unemployed or earn less.
Yet every leadership debate so far has given more time to talking about Starmer and Rishi Sunak’s parents than these problems, which face millions of Disabled people up and down the country.
