There have never been enough disabled people in public life - and the Covid pandemic has only made a bad situation worse.
Take the very heart of our democracy, the House of Commons, where only a handful of Members of Parliament are disabled.
At the time of the last election, it seemed there were five MPs who had described themselves as disabled – Labour ’s Emma Lewell-Buck, Marsha de Cordova, and Marie Rimmer, and Tories Robert Halfon and Paul Maynard.
