Labour’s failure over disability rights | Letters

Steve Higginson says Labour MPs have failed to ensure that all legislation is closely scrutinised.The critique of the government as contained in the report of the United Nations committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (UN report scathing of disability rights in UK, 1 September), makes for salutary reading.The legal challenges to the government from a variety of disability groups would not be required if all governmental legislation was being monitored through the lens of equali