Tory welfare minister Lord Freud had to make a grovelling apology yesterday after saying that people with disabilities are “not worth” paying the minimum wage. David Cameron claimed that Freud’s remarks were “not the view of anyone in the Government” at Prime Minister’s Questions.
However, that claim is looking pretty shaky today, as a Tory MP comes out to publicly back Lord Freud’s opinion. Jackie Doyle-Price, MP for the hyper-marginal seat of Thurrock, has gone on Twitter to claim that anyone who thinks that disabled people are worth the minimum wage is “living in cloud cuckoo land”:
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