The fact that the tories couldn’t be bothered to find the time to be interviewed tells you everything you need to know about how the tories see disabled people

Sorry, but this has come far too late and the media have failed to represent the views of those with a disability. What a terrible society we live in where they are just seen as a burden rather than human beings.

We already know the Tories will target the disabled on welfare and that Labour will follow the same route. They believe that work is the best option but fail to understand that work environments need to change to make that possible. Removing welfare payments will only make the problems worse.

Tories not giving a toss about a vulnerable group. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you... Said no one ever about the Tories

No one from the Tories was able to spare a few minutes to talk to Ruben?! tells you everything you need to know…shame on them!

Channel 4, I really like Ruben. Please have him do more stories.

Didn't realise it was 1 in 5 people. Definitely don't get 1 in 5 representation. Too much stigma not enough respect or recognition.

Is that a yes or a no? Politician: 🤯🤥

What a wonderful reporter this young man is. Great to see such great advocacy.

"Is that a yes or a no?" Fire 🔥🔥🔥

Ruben we love you pal 😺 from Glasgow

It's such a good news to see people with disbilities being heard and seen.:) It should be like that in every civilized country.

This guy is a top lad. Keep it up brother.

Reuben is incredible ❤

Top work Rueben! 🎉

Ruben is a billiant reporter, I would like to see him do more on c4 news

The Government think they can all have vouchers instead and have their PIP stopped end up at tribunal costing more money in the long run and at the same time whipped from universal credit and back to work

The poor and the disabled were done over during the 2010-18 austerity period. Only when the cost of living hit the middle class the noise about living standards were raised. I have mental disabilities (ADHD confirmed and medicated, PTSD and CPTSD currently being diagnosed), but the issue was it took me 3 1/2 years to get diagnosed. Not expecting a quick diagnosis on my PTSD - maybe by 2026/7. I was also refused PiP flat out (even though I'm on UC and have been for 3 years now and clearly struggling). We're the bottom of the queue, forgotten about. I don't have a life to live, I merely exist, trying to survive week on week.

They can't even answer a yes or no question smh

If we had a functioning NHS, social services, social care system, and an economy were people could afford to eat nutritious food and have leisure time for exercise then maybe there wouldn’t be quite as many disabled people to begin with! Oh and maybe if there wasn’t so many vaccine injuries!

100% percent agree, not a single party, talked about people with disability and how their government going to support them. Political parties more focused on cutting benefits

How many MPs are disabled? Is it 1 in 5? If not then we're not getting enough representation!

Thank you for raising the focus on disability rights and equity to your postential elected officials. In the USA, where I live, this issue does not even make the list of topics discussed by candidates. The interviews conducted were very well done and had insightful questions that candidates should be able to answer and have a position on.

I love Mr Reuter’s reporting skills and passion ❤

Some very excellent journalism here.

To be fair. The most "disabled" politicians that come to mind, are Jack Ashley and David Blunkett. I am sure there were more, physical ones, never mind mentally.

More of Rueben! He’s brilliant. Great reporting and holding politicians to account

excellent interview, it's a simple yes or no and holding her to giving a yes or no answer. they are so slippery with answers

Great journalism Ruben

Brilliant Reuben 👏👏👍👍

Disabled people deserve better than politicians have to offer, and their human rights need to be respected, not trampled on ❤️👍

Thank you to the snp and greens 💜

We want to see more of Ruben, please!!

Accessibility should not be addressed with a gentlemen’s agreement. Disabled people need legislation is that more than vague aspirations. The Americans with Disabilities Act is one of the rare instances when politicians did the right thing. Accessibility requirements are specified in US law. I hope to see such clarity eventually in the UK.

This is shocking 1 in 5 disabled in the UK those stats are very alarming how has it got to this point explains why the welfare system has gone beyond the stars now

Here's an idea government: instead of stripping benefits from marginalised groups, how about penalising the employers that discriminate in the hiring process?

Ruben looking fit ;)

Big up Ruben everytime. He's a local legend!

Awesome job, Ruben. Thank you for covering this.

Ruben is fantastic and asks all the difficult questions. I hope you will use him more, and not just for disability related issues!

One in five??? Somebody fact check the maths please.

Whats new disability people get ignored often unfortunately

That's why I'm voting for the green party given up on Keir starmer ❤

Great work and journalism!

I am fortunate to be a very successful Person with a Learning Disability I help in a Major UK Hospital in York in North Yorkshire where I am well known by everyone in the NHS in York.

His acting during dumping ground has come miles over the years a great young lad

What a great reporter ❤

The tory government was ganna replace pip payments for vouchers. What will labour do

Austerity has hit disabled people the most,along with single,mothers and the unemployed. I've cerebral palsy and worked for 35 years,until I was made redundant. Labour started Welfare Reform and Welfare to Work.The Conservative Party just doubled down on the misery with the Bedroom Tax. Benefits sanctions and the Two Child Benefit Cap. I think its more of the same under Keir Starmer and The Labour Party .

! in 5 British people disabled. Where did that figure come from. That's really not the case.

The government completely abandoned disabled people during the pandemic. No uplift like Universal Credit, no help at all to the people most likely to need it. We don't forgive and we don't forget.

It’s on,y 1 in 5 due to the huge number with depression etc. Not disabilities like this young man. It’s conflating 2 things.

Love you Ruben - keep up the good work!

I’ve got Multiple Sclerosis and Autism I’m not going to work for my own safety reasons, even though the government have stopped my PIP, I still refuse to work on grounds that I’m clumsy and accident prone..

The parties will help them by cutting their benefits and then blaming immigrants for the cuts

In other words 1 in 5 people are left of centre

I genuinely love this presenter!

1 in 5? This number seems high for any general population. How is disability being defined? Am I classified as being disabled because I am shorter than average and in need corrective lens?

theres one independent disabled candidate that i know of.

Good questions.

Don't forget 400,000 new disabled with long covid. The numbers keep growing

That's simple: the better a society lives, the better disable people live.

Its same with us Disabled Americans in the U.S its all talk and no actions unless they get profit from groups that back the marginalized disabled so they refuse to address the elephant in the room.

I feel bad for the ones who need help but the ones who cheat the system should be arrested

I wish it showed a more diverse range of disability in this video. Because my condition isn't immediately noticeable and I appear fit and healthy I am often discriminated against and told my condition isn't real.

Great report. The fact that disabled people are a significant proportion of the population yet so often get missed out and not talked about in the media is very telling, especially when issues like the trans debate (which affects a far smaller percentage of people) gets so much airtime and political attention.

One in five are claiming disability benefits, not quite the same thing. I have a sore back and dodgy knee. Maybe I should be claiming.

"Over 1 in 5 youths (ages 13-18) either currently or at some point during their life, have had a seriously debilitating mental illness"

People with disabilities have a should be heard the politicians don’t want to listen to people with disabilities and that not right

I have disabilities and was on working tax credits I was forced on to universal credit in March I still haven't had my capability assessment I'm working almost 30 hours a week and still being contacted by job centre every week to look for work and upload a CV and been told to read about sanctions 3 times this benefits system doesn't help disabled people in work at all I feel harassed and don't know what I'm supposed to do my income dropped for one month cos I had surgery and I told the stupid journal thing and now even though I've been back at work for almost 8 weeks they still won't leave me alone and even though I'm back in work and I've told them this they are still asking me for a fit note I've got no clue what's going on or what I'm supposed to do

The job centre didn't want me to claim universal credit at crescent road Manchester

I don’t know what effect it will have, but the day after the election was announced I preemptively contacted Keir Starmer about the impact on disabled people and how neglected I think we are. “Thank you for your email to Keir... I can confirm your views, observations and experiences have been duly noted and shared with the relevant teams.” I can only hope this has a positive impact on policy and the treatment of disabled people neglected for far too long and left out of conversations that directly impact our lives and means to life.

Saddened to see the medical model of disability being used and that being disabled seems to be equated with requiring health care; disabled employees take less sick leave that employees who are not yet disabled. Why would a disabled person be more likely to require health care than someone who is not yet disabled?

Ruben is great! Get him back!

1 in 5 Brits are not disabled. As a country we just haven't got the resources to sign 1 in 5 of our people off sick and think we're being kind in resigning them to a life of benefits.

Joseph and today

Wow! Ruben you need to be chancellor ❤education needs to be split now. SEN and mainstream equal. Instead of parents having to fight for an EHCP and state government having to pay extra, just train teachers exclusively as SEN teachers I would definitely do it given the opportunity

Theres no way 1 in 5 people have a disability in the uk. I have ADHD and it dosent mean i cant work or have to claim benefits?

Disability awareness is lacking more learning and less squirming

Unable, more like unwilling...

"1 in 5 Brits are disabled." (!) Surely this can only be true under an extraordinarily broad definition of "disabled". I am severely myopic (-9 diopters) and colour-blind: am I included in this statistic? At 68, I need help with some aspects of daily life which I formerly took for granted, which -- *very* fortunately, I fully realize in today's world -- I get from my family. Does that qualify me? My cousin had quite a long time off work with depression -- is she also "disabled" (or perhaps she was, and is no longer)? Anybody who breaks their leg on a skiing holiday is at least temporarily disabled, but I doubt whether it is they who are inflating this figure. More likely it is the proliferation of new "psychiatric" diagnoses like "attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder" and the ever-expanding definitions of autism (excuse me, the "autism spectrum"), dyslexia and PTSD. I know I risk being shot down as, at best, unfeeling and, at worst, a Nazi-style eugenicist, but *if* this statistic is to be taken seriously and *if* it relates principally to life-long congenital disabilities (rather than, for example, injury or the natural ageing process), then surely what is most needed is urgent action to improve our gene pool, by one means or another.

Meeting with someone representing disabled people and not knowing how many there are in your own work group

Do treat people with disabilities with respect. People are not disable. They have a disability.

1 in 5 Britons have a disability, not 1 in 5 are disabled. There's a pretty big difference between those two statements.

By not adequately funding the HSE so those responsibile for maining me are still at it without a consequence in the world

mhm *thumbsup* thank you

im dyslexic, dispraxia, Autsim, ADHD, ODC and Gay the tory goverment terrify me if reform get in im fleeing the country.

Govt: If you can work, you should work. Disabled person: Can I have a job? Employer: No, you'll need like equpipent or adaptations. Govt: So do that then. Employer: B B b But it'll cost too much! Govt: See, nobody wants to work.

Doesnt 1 in 5 seem to be a lot?

4:59 hahahahaha what a joke. Like you've not been stomping on us for 14 years.

Get notorious,Tory and poncey Sponsors involved.

awful xxx

#ubered still continues.

1 in 5 disabled?…bllx.

First Living being rights Second Human rights Then Please disabled people rights If a disabled people has a feasible Business plan then it is Government responsibility to provide full support. I try to start a business consisting of CNC machines for machines part Preparation but no help ....?

torys wouldnt go and meet him and now torys lost election nevermind

The Cons don't like their own ďisabled people.

google says we in uk spent 2% of GDP on disability and 11.3% on health, which is really extraordinary if you think about that actually. Really nice building and setting for your programme about campaigning for more you have there

My relatives are trying to sell my house against my will I'm a carer for Peter szczepanski who has schizophrenia I don't get any help what so ever

So much for diversity and inclusion. Its an absolute disgrace.