On their uppers
The former science minister George Freeman claimed that he resigned from the government last year because he couldn’t afford his mortgage repayments – which had risen from £800 to £2,000 a month – on his ministerial salary of £118,000.
– There is a precedent for a minister complaining publicly about his own poverty.
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