08/06/2026
One in four people in Wales are disabled.
Think about that for a moment.
One in four.
Yet despite representing hundreds of thousands of people, disabled voices are too often ignored by those making decisions about their lives.
Across Wales, disabled people are telling me the same thing.
They are worried.
~ Worried about their future.
~ Worried about growing pressure on benefits.
~ Worried about assessments that feel more like interrogations than support.
For many disabled people, support is not a luxury.
It is the difference between independence and isolation.
The difference between dignity and despair.
At the same time, our social care system is buckling under the weight of years of neglect.
Families are exhausted.
Unpaid carers are reaching breaking point.
Care workers are leaving a profession they love because they feel undervalued, overstretched and underpaid.
Wales can and must do better.
Disabled people deserve more than warm words and photo opportunities.
~ They deserve to be heard.
~ They deserve respect.
~ They deserve a benefits system that supports those who genuinely need help.
~ They deserve a social care system that works.
As Reform UK’s Shadow Minister and spokesperson for Disability, Mental Health and Veterans, I will continue to raise these issues and give a voice to those who feel ignored.
The measure of any government is not how it treats the powerful, the wealthy or the well-connected.
It is how it treats the people who need help the most.
Disabled people deserve better than this.
Reform UK intends to make sure they get it.