Disability Labour

Disability Labour
Formation1996; 28 years ago (1996)[1]
HeadquartersLondon, England
Location
  • United Kingdom
Membership (2021)
1300 (according to email from organisation)
Chair
  • Kathy Bole
AffiliationsLabour Party
Websitedisabilitylabour.org.uk

Disability Labour is a socialist society associated with the UK Labour Party.[1][2] Disability Labour seeks to represent and support disabled Labour members and supporters.[3] They are an independent policy-making group on disability with further "aims to support and develop disabled party members to serve as policymakers, ministers and elected officials".[4]

  1. ^ a b "Labour Leadership: Who Are the Party's Affiliate Groups Backing?". BBC News. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Socialist Societies". Labour Party. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Trade Unions and Affiliates". Campaign for Socialism. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  4. ^ Waltz, Mitzi; Schippers, Alice (2020). "Politically Disabled: Barriers and Facilitating Factors Affecting People with Disabilities in Political Life Within the European Union". Disability & Society: 16. doi:10.1080/09687599.2020.1751075. ISSN 0968-7599.