In just a single week this month, the UK’s new Universal Credit Act has triggered two separate interventions from the United Nations. That is no small thing. UN special rapporteurs have written to the UK government, questioning how the act complies with international human rights standards.

Just days later, the UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, told the Human Rights Council that disabled people in the UK “will be disproportionately affected by planned cuts to health benefits.”

With Labour Conference wrapped up, these international warnings should have been a wake-up call for party leaders: disabled people’s rights cannot wait, and urgent action is needed now.

For disabled people and their organisations, this international concern is not news. It is confirmation

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