NOT sacking the disgraceful Lord Freud after the revelation of his crass comments over the wages paid to disabled workers shows that the Conservatives actually support his views, even though their desperate spokesmen deny that his words were cruelly aimed at the productivity of the infirm.

The fact that Freud apologised in a craven statement should not have saved his ministerial career. The Tories fully deserve the public disgust that will come their way.

Geoff Robb, Hunters Close, Dunnington, York.