Friend of Princess Diana: 'Allow disabled people to work for less than minimum wage'

A close friend of the late Princess Diana, Rosa Monckton, has said that people with learning disabilities should be allowed to work for less than minimum wage – BBC reports.

Monckton, whose youngest daughter has Down’s syndrome, said she wants to see a ‘therapeutic exemption’ for disabled workers.

A green paper called Improving Lives, released by the Department of Work and Pensions in 2016, notes a link between work and health: “The longer a person is out of work, the more their health and wellbeing is likely to deteriorate… so every day matters.”

In an article for The Spectator, Monckton wrote: “Services are closing, and day centres barely exist anymore, so what lies ahead for people like my daughter? Unless the law changes, they can expect a life spent in the shadows, slumped on a sofa, eating the wrong sort of food, watching daytime television. This is not about the right to a minimum wage, it is about the right to have the human dignity that comes with work, and with being included."