The 40-year-old actress made an impassioned speech about welfare cuts, citing research which showed over 130,000 people had died from austerity. Martinez, who has cerebral palsy, singled out cuts to disability benefits, describing them as 'absolutely outrageous'. Even the UN has called Tory welfare reform a violation of disabled people's rights." "What a hero," one Twitter user wrote. The Institute for Public Policy Research, a think tank, recently found that Tory cuts were responsible for more than 130,000 preventable deaths in the UK since 2012.

Source: Daily Mirror June 13, 2019 22:37 UTC