CAMPAIGNERS from around the world gathered yesterday at a solidarity summit for deaf and disabled activists.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell addressed the crowd at The Old Town Hall in Stratford, London and reaffirmed Labour’s commitment to “scrap” work capability assessments. He condemned both the Tories and the Lib Dems, who had “used austerity as an excuse to destroy the welfare state.”

He added that the “worst thing” of the last eight years of austerity was “not just the cuts, it’s not just the brutality: it is denying disabled people the right to dream of a future.”