Meet the UK's only deafblind parliamentary candidate.

Name: Meet the UK's only deafblind parliamentary candidate.
Uploaded: 2017-06-07T00:26:58.000Z
Duration: 2 min 27 s
Description: Ben Fletcher has made it on to the ballot paper as a candidate for a London seat - despite being profoundly deaf and partially sighted.

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Ben Fletcher is profoundly deaf and registered blind as a result of Usher syndrome.

He's the UK's only deafblind candidate for parliament after he was accepted to contest a London seat at the general election on 8 June.

Video by Daniel Gordon and Helen Weaver

Disability

7 June 2017