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PM told to confess plans to cut minimum wage for disabled

DAVID CAMERON was challenged yesterday to come clean on whether the government had investigated Lord Freud’s suggestion of slashing the minimum wage for disabled people.

Labour demanded that the Prime Minister reveal all internal papers and details of work commissioned about cutting pay for disabled workers. 

Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves wrote to Mr Cameron after it was revealed that Lord Freud said disabled people were “not worth the full wage.”

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