A series of election candidates have been caught inventing party policy in front of an audience of disabled people, at a disability hustings event held just days before the general election. The ev…

The Conservatives, Greens, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK sent candidates from one of the five Bristol constituencies, but Labour only offered a city councillor, Kelvin Blake.

There was frustration and concern after the event that each of the five representatives had made statements that were not in their parties’ manifestos and were not party policy.