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. Labour has called on the
Conservative peer to resign after he said some workers were "not worth the
full wage". David Cameron distanced himself from the comments, saying they
"were not the views of anyone in government". Lord Freud said he was
"profoundly sorry" and supported the minimum wage. Read more on the
BBC website.
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My friend Trevor Hendy, who has died aged 89, was director of development
at United Kingdom Housing Trust (UKHT) in the 1980s, a period in which,
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