Freud: Disability wage comments outrages MPs and charities

Name: Freud: Disability wage comments outrages MPs and charities
Uploaded: 2014-10-15T21:04:37.000Z
Duration: 3 min 9 s
Description: The government minister in charge of welfare reform has apologised for remarks he made in which he suggested people with disabilities could be paid below the minimum wage.

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Welfare minister Lord Freud has apologised for "foolish and offensive" remarks in which he suggested people with disabilities could be paid less than the minimum wage.

Lord Freud said he was "profoundly sorry" and supported the minimum wage.

The BBC's deputy political editor James Landale reports.

UK Politics

15 October 2014