too ill to work is not an excuse for government, but a damning indictment of its failure. The coalition government has compounded disadvantage. Policies such as the bedroom tax and council tax cuts have, almost wilfully, increased inequality. Each policy change imposed on disabled or chronically ill people has been a cut – a slash to support, or punitive, flawed hoops to jump through – dressed up as reform.

The work capability assessment (WCA), originally brought in by Labour, exemplifies this: 45% of appeals have been successful; people have died after being found "fit for work". The assessments are part of a wider, systemic disease: the Work Programme fails over 93% of the disabled people for whom it is charged to help find work, and the sanction system punishesa single candidate early.

Traditional party power brokers like the UAW and AFL-CIO had backed Miles. Groups like the party's cannabis caucus and progressive caucus backed Nessel in the race.

Nessel is an attorney who rose to prominence by challenging Michigan's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, ultimately winning at the U.S. Supreme Court level.

Nessel will be the Michigan's first LGBT Attorney General if elected. In a nomination speech, Plymouth Democratic Club President Mary Maguire highlighted Nessel's leadership on the U.S. Supreme Court case.

"Progress like this is made because people like Dana Nessel never give up," Maguire said.

Nessel said she promised herself she would not lie to anybody in the course of campaigning, and she thinks her honesty resonated with people.

"Maybe some of the things that I said were unpopular. But