Labour hails Tory u-turn on child poverty trickery
Labour have claimed victory after forcing Iain Duncan Smith into a climbdown on the way child poverty is monitored.…
Lord Freud
Tory MP says those who live in “outlying regions” are “dog-end voters”
Tory MP for Wyre Forest, Mark Garnier has been overheard saying some voters can be ignored because they…
This government needs to fundamentally change the way it treats disabled people
By Stephen Timms and Kate Green Lord Freud’s now notorious suggestion that disabled people were not “worth” the…
Freud and the politics of cruelty
That story about the frog not noticing that the water it is sitting in is getting hotter and…
Get used to hearing a lot more of what Cameron’s Tories really think…
The revelation earlier this week that government welfare minister Lord Freud had referred to disabled people as ‘not…
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…
Tory MP reckons people who don’t agree with Lord Freud are “in cloud cuckoo land”
Tory welfare minister Lord Freud had to make a grovelling apology yesterday after saying that people with disabilities…
PMQs verdict: No apology is good enough. Freud must go, and he must go today
PMQs returns, and the Labour Party had an ambush waiting for Cameron. A recording from Lord Freud –…
Lord Freud’s apology “not the end of the matter”, say Labour
Lord Freud has apologised for his comments suggesting that disabled people are “not worth” the minimum wage. After…
David Cameron’s government: some disabled people are “not worth the full wage”
David Cameron’s welfare supremo has advocated treating those most in need differently by paying them below the national…
