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The EHRC is now dismantling its Disability Advisory Committee, amid an already huge wave of criticism over its stance on trans rights.

UK government’s policies lead to horrific COVID-19 death rates among disabled people The Conservative government’s criminal indifference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society has become ever more blatant as the pandemic crisis has unfolded. Earlier this month, the Mencap charity reported that people with learning disabilities were being told in January that they would not be resuscitated if they fell gravely ill with COVID-19. Edel Harris, Mencap’s chief executive,...