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Former Tory minister defends George Freeman in disability benefits row. The former health minister Alistair Burt says that George Freeman MP is the "last person in the world that I would consider capable of a deliberately insensitive remark". Freeman, the head of Number Ten's policy unit, caused controversy when he said that disability benefits should go to "really disabled people" not those "taking pills at home, who suffer from anxiety".