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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

Coronation Street star warns disabled people have been killed by Tories' Covid failure

Disabled people were killed by the government’s Covid failure, Coronation Street's first disabled actor said today.

Cherylee Houston wept as she said “we’re not seen as human”, adding: “It makes me want to cry every time”.

Cherylee, 48, who has played Izzy Armstrong on the ITV soap for 12 years, blasted Tory ministers for failing to provide a British Sign Language interpreter at daily press conferences.

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