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Disability charity opposes EHRC update and 'won't be used to erode trans rights'
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DWP trials PIP changes affecting thousands of claimants
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Over 100 MPs call to scrap 'dangerous' EHRC code that would segregate trans people
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Badenoch’s attack on equalities laws is less about Henry Nowak and more about taking on Reform
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