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Lord Freud: the man who saved the welfare system

Despite Labour’s attempts to have him fired, the welfare minister is a model public servant

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

It was mid-October and Downing Street was in a panic. Lord Freud, the welfare minister, had been secretly recorded suggesting that disabled people could be paid less than the minimum wage.

Labour demanded Freud should go. The No. 10 press office was briefing journalists that he would be out within hours.

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