Tory minister: “disabled people work harder because they’re grateful to have a job”

Tory Minister Lord Freud was put under pressure this week after he suggested that disabled people were “not worth” the minimum wage. Today another Tory Minister appears to have make similarly ill-judged (and revealing) comments about the Tory Party’s approach to disabled workers.


Andrew Selous David Cameron

The Independent on Sunday reports that Andrew Selous – the former parliamentary aide to Iain Duncan Smith and now a Justice Minister – told a fringe meeting:

“disabled people work harder because they’re grateful to have a job”.

In a further development, Labour will be bringing a vote of no confidence against Freud in the Lords at the irst available opportunity, on October 29th.

 

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