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Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour

Starmer’s ailing government is happy to pursue ideas like cutting Motability, but all ministers will do is damage lives and themselves, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow

The right is already in a frenzy about the migrant groups it thinks will benefit – and the budget contained other trade-offs, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Limits to Motability Cars Imposed After Shocking Rise In PIP Recipients Without Visible Disabilities Applying For Luxury Vehicles

UK Motability reforms remove luxury cars, prioritise British-built models, and ignite debate over disability rights and welfare cuts.

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Labour’s takedown of the Green party sums up the double standard that dogs our politics

Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Just beads in a glass jar: this is how the Tories dehumanise migrants and those in need

The Conservatives, like Reform, are rooting their immigration policy in the language of welfare dependency. It’s deeply harmful, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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It’s Badenoch’s Tory show, 2025: like Britain seeing an old flame and remembering why we blocked their number

The conference offers a flailing leader, Trumpite policies and rivals jockeying for position. It is comical, but also worrying, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Starmer should have conference in his hands – instead, power is slipping through his fingers

Last year’s triumph has turned into a groundhog day loop of missed chances and bad calls. The PM needs to change tack – but is he capable of it? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Trump has gone home but Britain’s problems will remain. Starmer’s invitation was a big mistake

All the pomp and circumstance can’t distract from the hate and division. The PM must summon the courage to act, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Did Labour really think it was a good idea to let Farage hijack the summer headlines?

The entire frontbench seemed to be asleep on the beach while the Reform leader made hay with his anti-migrant bile, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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My favourite childhood outfit: ‘I am in classic British beachwear – a cardigan knitted by my nan’

Whatever the season, I was always in something hand-knitted, and this outfit was colour-coordinated right down to the cheese and onion crisps

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A chaotic NHS is why people now ‘go private’

Letters: Ed Mason has been waiting 60 weeks for a partial knee operation, and David Hinchcliffe says accessing private healthcare is not a neutral act

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Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why

This shift marks an existential crisis for the NHS: if younger generations don’t use it, they won’t want to pay for it, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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As asylum seekers are engulfed by slurs and lies, our leaders shrug. Truly, this is shameful

The narrative that they are a threat to women and girls has no basis in fact, but bad actors peddle it, and ministers encourage them, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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The fight to keep measles out of nurseries raises issues of freedom and responsibility

Letter: Parents’ ‘personal choice’ should not extend to putting other children at risk, say Dr David Elliman and Prof Helen Bedford

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Look at the rise of measles in England and ask yourself: have we learned a single thing from Covid?

People grow complacent about vaccines precisely because they are so effective. What happened to collective responsibility, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash

Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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The Labour welfare rebels are right. This hounding of disabled people will damage the party for years to come

Opposition is mounting and No 10 is preparing a raft of concessions. But whatever happens next, the moral stain will remain, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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British women are being jailed under archaic abortion laws. MPs can act to end that this week

Women will really have the right to choose if politicians vote to revoke this Victorian-era legislation, writes Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Guardian writer Frances Ryan named one of Vogue’s 25 women ‘defining Britain’

Magazine says Ryan’s efforts to spotlight lives of disabled people are ‘needed more than ever’

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Watch Labour’s flip-flopping on winter fuel and benefits, and you’ll see who’s really considered important

This is governance by spreadsheet in pursuit of political capital, in which a hungry child or disabled person is merely a statistic, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Look at how Reform speaks about minorities. Why would Labour want to mimic this nasty party?

The British public is more liberal and tolerant than you would believe from our politicians. Time for Keir Starmer to appeal to Britain’s best side, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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The face of British disability is increasingly young and female. It’s time to hear from them

My book about disabled women grew in relevance as I wrote it, exposing the heartlessness of proposed harsh benefit cuts, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan review – countering the stereotypes

The journalist’s second book offers positivity in the face of the obstacles confronting disabled girls and women

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Thank you, Frances Ryan, for speaking up for us disabled women

Letter: Society would rather we stay out of sight, out of mind, says Karen Edmunds

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‘A weakness can become your biggest strength’ – wise words from 26 brilliant disabled women

In this second extract from Frances Ryan’s new book, actors, politicians, athletes and models offer their advice on living with physical and mental health conditions

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