Good morning. Ministers for disabled people are the opposite of buses: there were 11 in the UK in 13 years before 7 December, and then, suddenly, there wasn’t one at all.
The previous incumbent, Tom Pursglove, had been moved on to deal with reducing legal migration, a job the government considers more important than the circumstances of the UK’s 16 million disabled people; Rishi Sunak either didn’t think he needed to be replaced, or forgot about it. Only after the story gained traction at the end of last week was a new minister finally appointed – at a more junior level than her predecessor.
