David Cameron under pressure to evict peer over 'breeding' remark | Politics | The Guardian

David Cameron under pressure to evict peer over 'breeding' remark | Politics | The Guardian

Howard Flight who helped to raise millions for Tories, suggested welfare changes would encourage poor to have more children

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• Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 25 November 2010 20.14 GMT
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Howard Flight, who suggested welfare changes would encourage 'breeding' among the less well off. Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters

David Cameron was under pressure tonight to evict a new Tory peer from the party after he suggested that welfare changes would encourage "breeding" among the less well-off.