DISABILITY activists and MPs demanded Con-Dem minister Lord Freud’s resignation yesterday in a passionate Commons debate over his claim that the disabled were not worth full minimum wage.

As campaign group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPac) mounted a social media campaign demanding “Freud must go,” MPs rounded on the government for failing to ditch the welfare reform architect after his comments.

“The eyes of millions of disabled people, their families, friends and carers are on this house,” said shadow disabled people’s minister Kate Green.

She berated the government for forcing people to endure “hardship, hostility and fear” through forced assessments and cuts to welfare orchestrated by Lord Freud.

Labour Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery declared bluntly: “He knew what he was saying and he meant what he was saying.

“He should have been kicked out of office immediately, never to return.”

But glib Disabled People’s Minister Mark Harper appeared more interested in boasting of the government’s economic record.

He said he was “very disappointed” at an attack on “my noble friend” — an attack “not warranted in any way.”

“The way he expressed himself wasn’t helpful but the issue he raised was a very real issue,” claimed Mr Harper.

But Labour Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill MP Tom Clarke said: “I don’t believe that a Clement Attlee or a Harold MacMillan would have kept him in government for 10 minutes,” since the issue went to the heart of people’s trust in Parliament.

“A huge number of people are simply not trusting this Establishment. A huge number are experiencing poverty,” he said.

“A huge number with disabilities are seeing themselves as the victims not recipients of the compassion that this house should provide.”

Back bench Labour MPs rose in succession to recount individual horror stories of people feeling the full force of government policies.

Mitcham and Morden MP Siobhain McDonagh told how one of her constituents with cerebral palsy and a hole in her bladder had been ordered to attend a jobcentre in return for social security but was blocked from using the toilet.

“She was asked: ‘Are you threatening me that you will pee on the floor if you don’t use the toilet?’ That’s exactly what happened,” said Ms McDonagh.