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DISABILITY activists and MPs demanded Con-Dem minister Lord Freud’s resignation yesterday in a passionate Commons debate over his claim that the disabled were not worth full minimum wage.
As campaign group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPac) mounted a social media campaign demanding “Freud must go,” MPs rounded on the government for failing to ditch the welfare reform architect after his comments.
“The eyes of millions of disabled people, their families, friends and carers are on this house,” said shadow disabled people’s minister Kate Green.
‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape